Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Friendship

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

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love, Life, Friendship

• It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Patience, Truth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.81

• “I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

• Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Forgiveness, War

• Laugh at your friends,
  And if your friends are sore;
  So much the better,
  You may laugh the more.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Laughing, May

• In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Friendship, Heart, Bells

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

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