A man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHERA man without self-restraint is like a barrel without hoops, and tumbles to pieces.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn the family, happiness is in the ratio in which each is serving the others, seeking one another’s good, and bearing one another’s burdens.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNothing dies so hard, or rallies so often as intolerance.
HENRY WARD BEECHERPushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHERWe never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
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 BEECHERLove is the river of life in this world.
HENRY WARD BEECHEREducation is only like good culture,–it changes the size, but not the sort.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.
HENRY WARD BEECHERIn this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
HENRY WARD BEECHERThe meanest thing in the world is the devil.
HENRY WARD BEECHERHe that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
HENRY WARD BEECHERAll men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.
HENRY WARD BEECHERNo emotion, any more than a wave, can long retain its own individual form.
HENRY WARD BEECHERI can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
HENRY WARD BEECHER