Poverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is trial that proves one thing weak and another strong. A house built on the sand is in fair weather just… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The slave labors, but with no cheer-it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Home should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A house built on sand is, in fair weather, just as good as if builded on a rock. A cobweb is as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What is the Bible in your house? It is not the Old Testament, it is not the New Testament, it is not… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house. — 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
