The highest order that was ever instituted on earth is the order of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent… — 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
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The way to avoid evil is not by maiming our passions, but by compelling them to yield their vigor to our moral… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Sorrows, as storms, bring down the clouds close to the earth; sorrows bring heaven down close; and they are instruments of cleansing… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The beginnings of moral enterprises in this world are never to be measured by any apparent growth. ... At length comes the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The natural term of an apple-pie is but twelve hours. It reaches its highest state about one hour after it comes from… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who… — 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 great men of earth are the shadow men, who, having lived and died, now live again and forever through their undying… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As plants take hold, not for the sake of staying, but only that they may climb higher, so it is with men.… — 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
What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All human affairs follow nature's great analogue, the growth of vegetation. There are three periods of growth in every plant. The first,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of him but in broken and imperfect words. High… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
By Labor the North has subdued Nature, changed a parsimonious soil to fertility, built dwellings for almost her whole population, raised the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All our other faculties seem to have the brown touch of earth upon them, but the imagination carries the very livery of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. — 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
Providence is but another name for natural law. Natural law itself would go out in a minute if it were not for… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
That which distinguishes man from the brute is his power, in dealing with Nature, to milk her laws, and make them give… — 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
