Henry Ward Beecher Quotes & Sayings

117 most famous Henry Ward Beecher quotes and sayings (clergyman). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”

“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.”

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”

“The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.”

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”

“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”

“The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart.”

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

“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.”