If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo array a man’s will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLeaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROnes best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTroubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER