Herman Ward Poems
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward BeecherA proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.
Henry Ward BeecherLiving is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;
Henry Ward BeecherA noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Henry Ward BeecherThere was never a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave.
Henry Ward BeecherA helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track... an inch between wreck and smooth, rolling prosperity.
Henry Ward BeecherIt is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
Henry Ward BeecherNo man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward BeecherThe mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
William Arthur WardWe should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward BeecherThere is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities.
Herman MelvilleWhere do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?
Herman MelvilleFriendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.
Herman MelvilleI 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.
Henry Ward BeecherHe is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
Henry Ward BeecherIn this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
Henry Ward BeecherThe moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
Henry Ward BeecherThere is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
Herman MelvilleIt is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Herman MelvilleThere are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.
Herman Melville
