More from Henry Ward Beecher

  1. Any law that takes hold of a man's daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favo…
  2. When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.
  3. Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes.
  4. The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eat…
  5. The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and bli…
  6. Every artist dips his brush into his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
  7. It is not well for a man to pray, cream; and live skim milk.
  8. Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money...

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