It is not what we read, but what we remember, that makes us learned. It is not what we intend, but what… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and… — 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
The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If every child might live the life predestined in a mother's heart, all the way from the cradle to the coffin, he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is the very wantonness of folly for a man to search out the frets and burdens of his calling and give… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Self-denial does not belong to religion as characteristic of it; it belongs to human life; the lower nature must always be denied… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Do not be afraid because the, community teems with excitement. Silence and death are dreadful. The rush of life, the vigor of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when… — 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
