A biography for Henry Ward Beecherhasn’t been written yet.
“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.”
“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.”
“When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.”
“Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.”
“The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.”
“One best success comes after their greatest disappointments.”
“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”
“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
“I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.”