If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Unfruitful emotion is to be suspected. Feeling acts as an impulse, as a spur, as a spring, and when feelings are excited,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the early ages men ruled by strength; now they rule by brain, and so long as there is only one man… — 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
When flowers are full of heaven-descended dews, they always hang their heads; but men hold theirs the higher the more they receive,… — 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 many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls. They read,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. — 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's not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs than with his children, servants… — 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
There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it. — 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
Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God puts the excess of hope in one man, in order that it may be a medicine to the man who is… — 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
