black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.

Henry Ward Beecher

People may talk about the equality of the sexes! They are not equal. The silent smile of a sensible, loving woman will vanquish ten men.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Equality Man People Sex Silence Smile Talk Woman
Everyone has influence, for good or bad, upon others.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bad Goodness Influence
Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Excuse Home Religion Spread
A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Barrel Man Pieces
In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Burden Family Goodness Happiness Ratio Seek
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Friendship Ideas Love Severe Truth Word
The 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 BEECHER

Democracy Ideas Level Liberty Man Reality
If you are idle, you are on the road to ruin; and there are few stopping-places upon it. It is rather a precipice than a road
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Place Road Ruin Yourself
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Corruption Government Ourselves Revolution Stand Vote
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Bury Fair Fault Friendship Grave Himself Man Mistake
There is tonic in the things that men do not love to hear. Free speech is to a great people what the winds are to oceans and where free speech is stopped miasma is bred, and death comes fast.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Death Fast Freedom Love Man Ocean Stop Wind
He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Himself Poor Rich
There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Lamp Light Person Presence Radiant
If 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 BEECHER

Far Genius Kind Man
Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Discover Finding Temptation Yourself
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
HENRY WARD BEECHER

Beat Heart Heaven Love Music Reach

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

In the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes