Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
HENRY WARD BEECHERYoung love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue obedience is true freedom.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREvery young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWhat I spent, I had; What I kept, I lost; What I gave, I have.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTo do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo grace can save any man unless he helps himself.
HENRY WARD BEECHERTrue elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.
HENRY WARD BEECHERGod sends experience to paint men’s portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIf 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 BEECHERIt is for men to choose whether they will govern themselves or be governed.
HENRY WARD BEECHERLaws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
HENRY WARD BEECHER