It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDebt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe dog is the god of frolic.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChildren are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome people are proud of their humility.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
HENRY WARD BEECHER“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHER