Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

The unthankful heart... discovers no mercies but let the thankful heart sweep through the day and, as the magnet finds the iron, so it will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings!

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.