Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

- Henry Ward Beecher

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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.

- Henry Ward Beecher

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

- Henry Ward Beecher

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.

- Henry Ward Beecher

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

- Henry Ward Beecher

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

- Henry Ward Beecher

It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

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

- Henry Ward Beecher

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

- Henry Ward Beecher

I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.

- Henry Ward Beecher

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

- Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

- Henry Ward Beecher