See to it that each hour’s feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
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God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
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Happiness is not the end of life: character is.
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Downright admonition, as a rule, is too blunt for the recipient.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
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We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
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Joy is more divine than sorrow, for joy is bread and sorrow is medicine.
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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Faith is spiritualized imagination.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
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It is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
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