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
truth men allies
No man rides so high and in such good company as the man that allies himself to a truth.
writing men victory
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
military knowledge gun
Many men are stored full of unused knowledge. Like loaded guns that are never fired off, or military magazines in times of peace, they are stuffed with useless ammunition.
love ice sky
To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe. Not alone when they are in their glory, but in whatever state they are - in leaf, or rimed with frost, or powdered with snow, or crystal-sheathed in ice, or in severe outline stripped and bare against a November sky - we love them.
may causes flaws
He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.
men doors trying
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
public-opinion opinion weak
Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent.
grief heart passing-away
As warmth makes even glaciers trickle, and opens streams in the ribs of frozen mountains, so the heart knows the full flow and life of its grief only when it begins to melt and pass away.
rising each-day sun
The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
motivational men broken
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.
war forests acorns
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
laughing may ifs
Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.
summer fall autumn
What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.
men land funeral
Caution and conservatism are expected of old age; but when the young men of a nation are possessed of such a spirit, when they are afraid of the noise and strife caused by the applications of the truth, heaven save the land! Its funeral bell has already rung.