What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Troubles loom up big when they're ahead, And joys seem always sweeter when they're past. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more… — 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
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
