The last person one wants to be is themselves. Sadly, that is the best person to be. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for… — 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… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If a man has come to that point where he is no content that he says; I do not want to know… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Many men want wealth,--not a competence alone, but a live-story competence. Everything subserves this; and religion they would like as a sort… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I read for three things; first, to know what the world has done the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It was the German schoolhouse which destroyed Napoleon III. France, since then, is making monster cannon and drilling soldiers still, but she… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Brethren, we are all sailing home; and by and by, when we are not thinking of it, some shadowy thing (men call… — 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… — 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
