The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWell married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSpreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHappiness is not the end of life: character is.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLife would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him.
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 BEECHERRepentance is another name for aspiration.
HENRY WARD BEECHERDon’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHERInvolved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
HENRY WARD BEECHER