Clergyman's

“Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“A man’s true state of power and riches is to be in himself.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“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.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Books are not men and yet they stay alive.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“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.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Love is the river of life in the world.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the oil of another’s heart, or its flame burns low.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“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.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The advertisements in a newspaper are more full knowledge in respect to what is going on in a state or community than the editorial columns are.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It’s jolted by every pebble on the road.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.”
– Henry Ward Beecher