The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The sun does not shine for a few trees, and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. The lonely pine on the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A traitor is good fruit to hang from the boughs of the tree of liberty. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men are like trees: each one must put forth the leaf that is created in him. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Any man can work when every stroke of his hands brings down the fruit rattling from the tree ... but to labor… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If any man is rich and powerful he comes under the law of God by which the higher branches must take the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
O never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Of all formal things in the world, a clipped hedge is the most formal; and of all the informal things in the… — 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
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men who stand on any other foundation than the rock Christ Jesus are like birds that build in trees by the side… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some… — 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
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
