A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It is the end of art to inoculate men with the love of nature. But those who have a psssion for nature… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
October is the opal month of the year. It is the month of glory, of ripeness. It is the picture-month. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
We pray for those who have ceased to pray. We pray for those that need prayer more than ever, that have fewer… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
That was a judicious mother who said, "I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I… — 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
