Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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. - Henry Ward Beecher

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door. - Henry Ward Beecher

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave. - Henry Ward Beecher

You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich. - Henry Ward Beecher

You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are. - Henry Ward Beecher

Work is not the curse, but drudgery is. - Henry Ward Beecher

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? - Henry Ward Beecher

When young men are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideas of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. - Henry Ward Beecher

When we talk about ourselves we almost invariably use Latin words, and when we talk about our neighbors we use Saxon words. - Henry Ward Beecher

When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. - Henry Ward Beecher

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