Henry Ward Beecher People Quotations

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

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

Newspapers are the schoolmasters of the common people.

Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities.

Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.

Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That is true cultivation which gives us sympathy with every form of human life, and enables us to work most successfully for its advancement. Refinement that carries us away from our fellow people is not God's refinement.

What is the disposition which makes men rejoice in good bargains? There are few people who will not be benefited by pondering over the morals of shopping.

Learning, to be of much use, must have a tendency to spread itself among the common people.

Some people are proud of their humility.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

It's not work that kills [people], it is worry.

It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she is also building schoolhouses. As long as war is possible, anything that makes better soldiers people want.

The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion.

No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.