Expedients are for an hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend and winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands. Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher More Quotes From Henry Ward Beecher Sorrow makes men sincere. Henry Ward Beecher sorrowgriefmen Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook. Henry Ward Beecher huntingfishingmen If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius. Henry Ward Beecher common-sensegeniusmen A cunning man overreaches no one half as much as himself. Henry Ward Beecher cunning-manhalfmen Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home. Henry Ward Beecher christianityhomesometimes Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in. Henry Ward Beecher porcelaincolorcharacter No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle. Henry Ward Beecher menchildrenworld Theology is but a science of applied to God. As schools change theology must necessarily change. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas of truth are not. Theology is but our ideas of truth classified and arranged. Henry Ward Beecher truth-isideasschool There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave. Henry Ward Beecher anything-worth-doingfamous-inspirationalmotivational At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the birds will sing to it all summer long, but the next season it will unfold and go alone. Henry Ward Beecher rockssummersong The beginning is the promise of the end. Henry Ward Beecher endspromise Pushing any truth out very far, you are met by a counter-truth. Henry Ward Beecher metspushingtruth Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit. Henry Ward Beecher contemplationendsself We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts. Henry Ward Beecher blessedinspirationalcharacter We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning. Henry Ward Beecher good-morningtimelife Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you. Henry Ward Beecher nextvictorysweet Let parents who hate their offspring rear them to hate labor, and to inherit riches; and before long they will be stung by every vice, racked by its poison, and damned by its penalty. Henry Ward Beecher hateparentlong To do good work a man should no doubt be industrious. To do great work he must certainly be idle a well. Henry Ward Beecher good-workdoubtmen Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. Henry Ward Beecher menlifeway The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age. Some have floated on the sea, and trouble carried them on its surface as the sea carries cork. Some have sunk at once to the bottom as foundering ships sink. Some have run away from their own thoughts. Some have coiled themselves up into a stoical indifference. Some have braved the trouble, and defied it. Some have carried it as a tree does a wound, until by new wood it can overgrow and cover the old gash. Henry Ward Beecher searunningmen
