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Debt rolls a man over and over, binding him hand and foot, and letting him hang upon the fatal mesh until the long-legged interest devours him.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Blessed be the man whose work drives him. Something must drive men; and if it is wholesome industry, they have no time for a thousand torments and temptations.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
He is the happiest man who is engaged in a business which tasks the most faculties of his mind.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A lie is a very short wick in a very small lamp. The oil of reputation is very soon sucked up and gone. And just as soon as a man is known to lie, he is like a two-foot pump in a hundred-foot well. He cannot touch bottom at all.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
God sends experience to paint men's portraits.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
As long as society is absolutely divided as milk is, the cream being at the top and the impoverished milk at the bottom, so long will society be unbalanced, and liable to be thrown into convulsions out of which will spring wars. A circulation throughout keeps it in health.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Socially we are woven into the fabric of society, where every man is like one thread in a piece of cloth. No single thread has a right to say, "I will stay here no longer," and draw out. No man has a right to make a hole in the well-woven fabric of society.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The mischiefs of anarchy have been equaled by the mischiefs of government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
It usually takes a hundred years to make a law, and then, after it has done its work, it usually takes a hundred years to get rid of it.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
There is no right more universal and more sacred, because lying so near the root of existence, than the right of men to their own labor.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The grossest, the cruelest, the most selfish, the most easily pervertible and perverted thing in this world, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The law is a batter, which protects all that is behind it, but sweeps with destruction all that is outside.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
No people are so easy to govern as the intelligent, and none are so hard to govern as the ignorant.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
God's hand, like a sign-board, is pointing toward democracy, and saying to the nations of the earth, "This is the way: walk ye in it."
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Public sentiment is to public officers what water is to the wheel of the mill.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral-bell is already rung.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
A man without a vote ... is like a man without a hand.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
Liberty is the soul's right to breathe, and when it cannot take a long breath, laws are girdled too tight.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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