Mirthfulness is in the mind and you cannot get it out. It is just as good in its place as conscience or… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Everyone has conscience enough to hate; few have religion enough to love. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Morality is character and conduct such as is required by the circle or community in which the man's life happens to be… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men will imitate and admire his unmoved firmness, his inflexible conscience for the right; and yet his gentleness, as tender as a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Success surely comes with conscience in the long run, other things being equal. Capacity and fidelity are commercially profitable qualities. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
An ambition which has conscience in it will always be a laborious and faithful engineer, and will build the road, and bridge… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Undoubtedly we render our consciences callous by evil indulgences; but we cannot entirely subdue that still, small voice. — 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
