Riches without law are more dangerous than is poverty without law — 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
A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe and, when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Wealth held by a class and used ambitiously becomes as despotic as an absolute monarchy, and has in its hands manners, customs,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Any law that takes hold of a mans daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the… — 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
It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Prayer is often an argument of laziness: "Lord, my temper gives me a vast deal of inconvenience, and it would be a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The conditions of city life may be made healthy, so far as the physical constitution is concerned; but there is connected with… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I received a letter from a lad asking me for an easy berth. To this I replied: You cannot be an editor;… — 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
