Henry Ward Beecher
Henry Ward Beecher was born on June 24, 1813 at Litchfield, Connecticut in U.S. He was a well-known clergyman, abolitionist, Congregationalist, speaker and social reformer. He was the eighth son of Lyman Beecher, who was a Presbyterian preacher from Boston, and Roxana Foote. He was brought up in strict orthodox ministry which was always preached by his father. Like everyone in the family he had to offer prayers two times a day, one at the beginning and other at the end of the day, along with Read More...
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence, as a compliment from God.- Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.
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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.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
You cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
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What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.
