Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Pleasure

• The first merit of pictures is the effect which they can produce upon the mind; — and the first step of a sensible man should be to receive involuntary effects from them. Pleasure and inspiration first, analysis afterward.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Art, Inspiration, Men

  "Star Papers: Or, Experiences of Art and Nature".

• There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lamps, Rooms, Kind

• Your greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Heart, Pleasure

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

• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. Just as long as there is the enthusiasm of the chase they enjoy it; but when they begin to look around, and think of settling down, they find that that part by which joy enters is dead in them. They have spent their lives in heaping up colossal piles of treasure, which stand, at the end, like the pyramids in the desert sands, holding only the dust of kings.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Kings, Men, Thinking

  Henry Ward Beecher (1860). “Life thoughts”, p.144

• When a man can look upon the simple wild-rose, and feel no pleasure, his taste has been corrupted.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sympathy, Simple, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.98, Applewood Books

• Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Wealth, Pleasure

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.80

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