Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Books

• A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Educational, Book, Reading

• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Attitude, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

• Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Funny, Book

• A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is company by the way; it is a counselor; it is a multitude of counselors.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Party, Book, Garden

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• 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

  Book, Longing, Good Company

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.292

• Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Soul, Looks

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.155

• That endless book, the newspaper, is our national glory.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Glory, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.283

• Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Children, Growing Up, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.156

• The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheer, Children, Book

  "Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers". Book by David W. Bartlett, 1856.

• Each book has a secret history of ways and means.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Mean, Secret

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.255, Applewood Books

• A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Men, Years

• There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, School, Intelligent

  Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

• Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Sleep, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1868). “Norwood: Or, Village Life in New England”, p.71

• There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good perspiration and a breath of fresh air.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Exercise, Air

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.27

• The bibliophile is the master of his books, the bibliomaniac their slave.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Slave, Masters

• A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a mentor, a teacher, a guidepost, a counsellor.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Teacher, Party, Book

• The most efficacious secular book that ever was published in America is the newspaper.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, America, Newspapers

  Henry Ward Beecher (1863). “Freedom and War: Discourses on Topics Suggested by the Times”, p.150, Gale Cengage Learning

• A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the labor, and the struggle, represented in this vast catacomb of books. Who could dream, by the placid waters that issue from the level mouths of brooks into the lake, all the plunges, the whirls, the divisions, and foaming rushes that had brought them down to the tranquil exit? And who can guess through what channels of disturbance, and experiences of sorrow, the heart passed that has emptied into this Dead Sea of books?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Dream, Struggle, Book

  Henry Ward Beecher (1855). “Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature”, p.54, New York : Boston : J.C. Derby ; Phillips, Sampson & Company

• Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Reading, Men

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