Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Boys have their soft and gentle moods too. You would suppose by the morning racket that nothing could be more foreign to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I know it is more agreeable to walk upon carpets than to lie upon dungeon floors, I know it is pleasant to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Some men will not shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all the week in shaving their fellow-men; and many folks think… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
God has intended the great to be great and the little to be little ... The trade unions, under the European system,… — 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
