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
The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place it, and that is the grave. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As ships meet at sea a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away upon the deep, so… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The world is to be cleaned by somebody, and you are not called of God if you are ashamed to scrub. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The great lever by which to raise and save the world is the unbounded love and mercy of God. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The most miserable pettifogging in the world is that of a man in the court of his own consciences. — 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
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Love is the river of life in this world. Think not that ye know it who stand at the little tinkling rill,… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy. — 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
