Quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man never has good luck who has a bad wife.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.
- Henry Ward Beecher
A man that has lost moral sense is like a man in battle with both of his legs shot off: he has nothing to stand on.
- Henry Ward Beecher
No man is good for anything who has not some particle of obstinacy to use upon occasion.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.
- Henry Ward Beecher