This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is so much that is deaf and dumb in man, and so much that is paralyzed, so much that is shrunken,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When we borrow trouble, and look forward into the future and see what storms are coming, and distress ourselves before they come,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A cup of coffee - real coffee - home-browned, home ground, home made, that comes to you dark as a hazel-eye, but… — 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
