No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Evil men of every degree will use you, flatter you, lead you on until you are useless; then, if the virtuous do… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Badgered, snubbed and scolded on the one hand; petted, flattered and indulged on the other-it is astonishing how many children work their… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We go to the grave of a friend saying, "A man is dead," but angels throng about him saying, "A man is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“There is no friendship, no love, like that of the mother for the child.” — 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