The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHER“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.”
More Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
-
-
Be a hard master to yourself – and be lenient to everybody else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
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 -
It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
There is a power in the human mind to see things as they are but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.
HENRY WARD BEECHER -
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






