A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYour greatest pleasure is that which rebounds from hearts that you have made glad.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
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 BEECHERThe human soul is God’s treasury, out of which he coins unspeakable riches.
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 BEECHERCompassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe blossom cannot tell what becomes of its odor, and no person can tell what becomes of his or her influence and example.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLeaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe need not fear shipwreck when God is the pilot.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe beginning is the promise of the end.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHome should be an oratorio of the memory, singing to all our after life melodies and harmonies of old-remembered joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIt is not work that kills men; it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hard put more upon a man than he can bear. Worry is rust upon the blade. It is not the revolution that destroys the machinery, but the friction.
HENRY WARD BEECHER