Henry Ward Beecher

We ought to be ten times as hungry for knowledge as for food for the body.

Henry Ward Beecher

Work is not a curse, but drudgery is.

Henry Ward Beecher

A bird in a cage is not half a bird.

Henry Ward Beecher

A boy is a piece of existence quite separate from all things else, and deserves separate chapters in the natural history of men.

Henry Ward Beecher

A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Henry Ward Beecher

A church debt is the devil’s salary.

Henry Ward Beecher

A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.

Henry Ward Beecher

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

Henry Ward Beecher

A library is but the soul’s burying ground. It is a land of shadows.

Henry Ward Beecher

A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it.

Henry Ward Beecher