Henry Ward Beecher

If there be any one whose power is in beauty, in purity, in goodness, it is a woman.

Henry Ward Beecher

If we are like Christ, we shall seek, not to absorb, but to reflect the light which falls upon others, and thus we shall become pure and spotless.

Henry Ward Beecher

If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

Henry Ward Beecher

If you want your neighbor to know what Christ will do for him, let the neighbor see what Christ has done for you.

Henry Ward Beecher

Ignorance is the womb of monsters.

Henry Ward Beecher

In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.

Henry Ward Beecher

In engineering, that only is great which achieves. It matters not what the intention is, he who in the day of battle is not victorious is not saved by his intention.

Henry Ward Beecher

In friendship your heart is like a bell struck every time your friend is in trouble.

Henry Ward Beecher