Henry Ward Beecher Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”

“It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.”

“A man that does not know how to be angry does not know how to be good.”

“We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.”

“There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away.”

“The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.”

“The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.”

“Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.”

“The most dangerous people are the ignorant.”

“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.”