“It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Education is only like good culture,--it changes the size, but not the sort. — 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… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no greater crime than to stand between a man and his development; to take any law or institution and put… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
They who refuse education to a black man would turn the South into a vast poorhouse, and labor into a pendulum, necessity… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Education will not come of itself; it will never come unless you seek it; it will not come unless you take the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A love of flowers would beget early rising, industry, habits of close observation, and of reading. It would incline the mind to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every man should use his intellect, not as he uses his lamp in the study, only for his own seeing, but as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A republican government is in a hundred points weaker than one that is autocratic; but in this one point it is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation.… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share
