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The call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself.
Life Thoughts (1858)
When laws, customs, or institutions cease to be beneficial to man, they cease to be obligatory.
Life Thoughts (1858)
He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
Lectures to Young Men (1844)
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Life Thoughts (1858)
There is no such thing as preaching patience into people, unless the sermon is so long that they have to practise it while they hear.
Life Thoughts (1858)
It is not well for a man to pray, cream; and live, skim milk.
Life Thoughts (1858)
Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry.
Life Thoughts (1858)
Christ is the ideal of what a man should be.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Doctrine is nothing but the skin of Truth set up and stuffed.
Life Thoughts (1858)
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad when they touch the ground, but grow narrower as they reach the sky.
Life Thoughts (1858)
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.
Life Thoughts (1858)
Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?
Nature is a vast repository of manly enjoyments.
Lectures to Young Men (1844)
There are a great many doors open; but a door must be of a man's size or it is not meant for him.
Henry Ward Beecher: His Life and Work (1887)
May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.
There is not a heart but has its moments of longing,— yearning for something better, nobler, holier than it knows now.
A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.
Eyes and Ears (1862)