Women are a new race, recreated since the world received Christianity. — 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
Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Everything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time. — 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
Love, in this world, is like a seed taken from the tropics, and planted where the winter comes too soon; and it… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Your honors here may serve you for a time, as it were for an hour, but they will be of no use… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven. By these tendrils we clasp it and climb thitherward. And why… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the morning, we carry the world like Atlas; at noon, we stoop and bend beneath it; and at night, it crushes… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A man that puts himself on the ground of moral principle, if the whole world be against him, is mightier than all… — 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
