Talk:Henry Ward Beecher

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• It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery but the friction.

• Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven

• Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.

• Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money...

• 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

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

• Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another's heart, or its flame burns low.

• Now comes the mystery.
  • Last words

• The dog was created specially for children. He is a god of frolic.

• The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way to the coffin.

• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

• Words are pegs to hang ideas on.

• No emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain it's own individual form.

• The first hour is the rudder of the day — the Golden Hour.

• Good-humor makes all things tolerable.