God sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo man is more cheated than the selfish man.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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Death is the Christian’s vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
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The dog is the god of frolic.
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That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
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A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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.
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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.
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We go to the grave of a friend saying, “A man is dead,” but angels throng about him saying, “A man is born.”
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No grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
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Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
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Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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It is not merely cruelty that leads men to love war, it is excitement.
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There are more quarrels smothered by just shutting your mouth, and holding it shut, than by all the wisdom in the world.
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Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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