We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Wisdom
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Friendship
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Famous Quotes
Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?
— Henry Ward Beecher
Weakness
A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Education
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game. The cynic puts all human actions into two classes — openly bad and secretly bad.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Character
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do not pity you, or God compassionate, you are without a friend in the universe.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Ethics
Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Humorous