Conscience is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Reason can tell how love affects us, but cannot tell what love is. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Faith is a recognition of those things which are above the senses. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No one can deal with the hearts of men unless he has the sympathy which is given by love. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no slave out of heaven like a loving woman; and, of all loving women, there is no such slave as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to point us to that realm which is the real and endless home of the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love is God's loaf; and this is that feeding for which we are taught to pray, "Give us this day our daily… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Heaven answers with us the same purpose that the tuning-fork does with musicians. Our affections, the whole orchestra of them, are apt… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The rarest feeling that ever lights a human face is the contentment of a loving soul. — 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
Vigilance is not only the price of liberty, but of success of any sort. — 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
It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. — 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
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin. — 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
