When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Whoever makes home seem to the young dearer and more happy, is a public benefactor. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Our children that die young are like those spring bulbs which have their flowers prepared beforehand, and leave nothing to do but… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit,… — 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
If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If one, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him, It means just what Concord and Lexington meant,… — 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
