Quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

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.

Gambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It’s getting money without giving an equivalent for it.

The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung.

God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men’s weaknesses.

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

Love is the river of life in the world.