The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man’s character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
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The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.
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Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.
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What I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
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The cynic puts all human actions into two classes – openly bad and secretly bad.
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It is not in the nature of true greatness to be exclusive and arrogant.
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Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
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The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.
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To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
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Involved sentences, crooked, circuitous, and parenthetical, no matter how musically they may be balanced, are prejudicial to a facile understanding of the truth.
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.
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Nothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
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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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Some people are proud of their humility.
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