Reading is a dissuasion from immorality. Reading stands in the place of company. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The commerce of the world is conducted by the strong, and usually it operates against the weak. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The things required for prosperous labor, prosperous manufactures, and prosperous commerce are three. First, liberty; second, liberty; third, liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A book is a garden; A book is an orchard; A book is a storehouse; A book is a party. It is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Even a liar tells a hundred truths to one lie; he has to, to make the lie good for anything. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or veneration. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
