God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When men enter into the state of marriage, they stand nearest to God. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All the wide world is but the husbandry of God for the development of the one fruit-man. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are some men's souls that are so thin, so almost destitute of what is the true idea of soul, that were… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are not anywhere else so many ways of trickery, so many false lights, so many veils, so many guises, so many… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All higher motives, ideals, conceptions, sentiments in a man are of no account if they do not come forward to strengthen him… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The best stock a man can invest in, is the stock of a farm; the best shares are plow shares; and the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Where all of the man is what property he owns, it does not take long to annihilate him. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
That state of mind in which a man is impressed with invisible things is faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No man ever learned to love God with all his heart, and his neighbour as himself, in a day. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Nothing is orderly till man takes hold of it. Everything in creation lies around loose. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — 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
Some of God's noblest sons, I think, will be selected from those that know how to take wealth, with all its temptations, and maintain… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
