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
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. – Henry Ward Beecher
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. – Henry Ward Beecher
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either. – 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 sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy. – Henry Ward Beecher
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next. – Henry Ward Beecher
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. – Henry Ward Beecher
God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas. – Henry Ward Beecher
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. – Henry Ward Beecher
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. – Henry Ward Beecher
No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy today, mix good cheer with friends today enjoy it and bless God for it. – Henry Ward Beecher
If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere. – Henry Ward Beecher
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right. – Henry Ward Beecher
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. – Henry Ward Beecher
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. – Henry Ward Beecher