A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every man carries a menagerie in himself; and, by stirring him up all around, you will find every sort of animal represented… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Walking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no true and abiding morality that is not founded in religion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life. — 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
