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Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher
Many men are mere warehouses full of merchandise-the head, the heart, are stuffed with goods. *** There are apartments in their souls which were once tenanted by taste, and love, and joy, and worship, but they are all deserted now, and the rooms are filled with earthy and material things.— filed under Character
Thoughts. Many men build as cathedrals were built, the part nearest the ground finished; but that part which soars toward heaven, the turrets and the spires, forever incomplete.— filed under Character
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.— filed under Duty
As for marigolds, poppies, hollyhocks, and valorous sunflowers, we shall never have a garden without them, both for their own sake, and for the sake of old-fashioned folks, who used to love them.— filed under Flirting
A Discourse of Flowers. Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock.— filed under Flirting
Dandelion. Taraxacum Dens-leonis. You cannot forget if you would those golden kisses all over the cheeks of the meadow, queerly called dandelions. C.— filed under Flowers-Daisy
A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.— filed under Libraries
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 to-morrow.— filed under Life
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw from them as from the wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to muscles and the bones.— filed under Occupations-Alchemy