Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecherwas an American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, his emphasis on God's love, and his 1875 adultery trial...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth24 June 1813
CountryUnited States of America
character color porcelain
Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.
hate long parent
Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty.
law batteries destruction
The law is a battery, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
children men world
No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.
life men way
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
sleep night men
God has made sleep to be a sponge by which to rub out fatigue. A man's roots are planted in night as in a soil.
vanity doe
There is nothing which vanity does not desecrate.
gratitude flower fall
As flowers carry dewdrops, trembling on the edges of the petals, and ready to fall at the first waft of wind or brush of bird, so the heart should carry its beaded words of thanksgiving; and at the first breath of heavenly flavor, let down the shower, perfumed with the heart's gratitude.
success war bird
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
death christian morning
Death is the Christian's vacation morning. School is out. It is time to go home.
sea land atmosphere
It is not desirable that we should live as in the constant atmosphere and presence of death; that would unfit us for life; but it is well for us, now and then, to talk with death as friend talketh with friend, and to bathe in the strange seas, and to anticipate the experiences of that land to which it will lead us. These forethinkings are meant, not to make us discontented with life, but to bring us back with more strength, and a nobler purpose in living.
music men thinking
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds the concert pitch; but it is not to break it, but to use it tunefully, that he stretches the string upon the musical rack.
work men rich
The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.
laziness ruins stopping
If 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