American clergyman (1813-1887)
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A babe is nothing but a bundle of possibilities.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Worry is rust upon the blade.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is a last year's nest, from which the bird has flown.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts
Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Justice is never so slender to us as when we first practice it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Grace is only nature blossomed out; nature won and warmed into its true growth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A people uneducated is like an iron mountain whose ore is unwrought.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Birds finish the nest with their own breast, so it is the bosom that makes the home, and not the bill or the claw.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Every well-doer on the face of the earth is my blood relation through Jesus Christ.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Life Thoughts