You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Henry Ward Beecher
The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.
Henry Ward Beecher
Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward Beecher
A man's true state of power and riches is to be in himself.
Henry Ward Beecher
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
Beware of him who hates the laugh of a child.
Henry Ward Beecher
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs-jolted by every pebble in the road.
Henry Ward Beecher
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
Henry Ward Beecher
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher
Graduation Quotes
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
Henry Ward Beecher
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Henry Ward Beecher
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
Henry Ward Beecher
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.
Henry Ward Beecher
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.