It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. We… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Money in the hands of one or two men is like a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There ought to be such an atmosphere in every Christian church that a man going there and sitting two hours should take… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Loving is like music. Some instruments can go up two octaves, some four, and some all the way from black thunder to… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of… — 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
The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Education is the knowledge of how to use the whole of oneself. Many men use but one or two faculties out 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
