Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHERMen go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
HENRY WARD BEECHER“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERSpreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYou have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBe a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYoung 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.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChildren are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROnes best success comes after their greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAdversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER