Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

"God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress."

"The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government."

"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."

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

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

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

"We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning."

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

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

"The dog is the god of frolic."

"We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things."

"Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves."