Henry Ward Beecher Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.”

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”

“Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.”

“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.”

“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.”

“A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.”

“A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”

“Clothes and manners do not make the man; but, when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.”

“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”