Sorrow makes men sincere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSorrow makes men sincere.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work; it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWalking humbly, you are more of a man than you were when you walked proudly.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERChildren are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man’s roots are planted in night as in a soil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThere is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.
HENRY WARD BEECHERBlessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
HENRY WARD BEECHER