Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Wealth

• He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Happy, Teacher

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life thoughts gathered from the extemporaneous discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, by E.D. Procter”, p.48

• No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. 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 Beecher

  Heart, Men, Rich Or Poor

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.46

• Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Eggs, Generosity

  Henry Ward Beecher (1897). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”

• A reputation for good judgment, for fair dealing, for truth, and for rectitude, is itself a fortune.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Character, Reputation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.396

• When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Men, Devil

  Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1897). “The original Plymouth pulpit”

• Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Money, Riches, Wealth

  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

• Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Selfish, War, Heart

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

• Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain godliness therewith. It is hard to be a saint standing in a golden niche.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Son, Thinking, Temptation

  Henry Ward Beecher (1866). “Royal truths”, p.135

• Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort of lightning-rod to their houses, to ward off by and by the bolts of Divine wrath.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Wrath, House

• 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

• Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs, laws, institutions, and governments themselves.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Government, Hands, Law

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

• As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Riches, Milk

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.381

• Wealth in activity--capital with all its friction--is far safer than invested wealth lying dead.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Lying, Wealth, Friction

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

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