God 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 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 BEECHERHe is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
HENRY WARD BEECHERFind out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERCompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
HENRY WARD BEECHERSome men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation’s young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHEROur best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
HENRY WARD BEECHER