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
life dwelling hands
In the sacred precinct of that dwelling where the despotic woman wields the sceptre of fierce neatness, one treads as if he carried his life in his hands.
education men use
A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.
home want public-speaking
Never be grandiloquent when you want to drive home a searching truth. Don't whip with a switch that has the leaves on, if you want it to tingle.
pain helping virtue
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
ignorance monsters womb
Ignorance is the womb of monsters.
character men self
A man's true estate of power and riches is to be in himself; not in his dwelling or position or external relations, but in his own essential character.
war mean views
Oftentimes great and open temptations are the most harmless because they come with banners flying and bands playing and all the munitions of war in full view, so that we know we are in the midst of enemies that mean us damage, and we get ready to meet and resist them. Our peculiar dangers are those that surprise us and work treachery in our fort.
anger men evil
A 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.
war order perfect
I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.
men doe flattery
A man that does not love praise is not a full man.
fighting victory results
Victories that come cheap are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
men wealth pleasure
Very few men acquire wealth in such a manner as to receive pleasure from it.
truth errors dangerous
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
beauty may creation
Beauty may be said to be God's trademark in creation.