Henry Ward Beecher

(18 votes)   The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(494 votes)   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 Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(398 votes)   All 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 Beecher

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(370 votes)   Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(314 votes)   The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(286 votes)   In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(262 votes)   There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(232 votes)   Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Henry Ward Beecher

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(217 votes)   It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.

Henry Ward Beecher

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(215 votes)   There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(199 votes)   If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.

Henry Ward Beecher

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(188 votes)   Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(185 votes)   The dog is the god of frolic.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(176 votes)   No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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(170 votes)   Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer

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