Henry Ward Beecher

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

A law is valuable not because it is law, but because there is right in it.

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that read more

A tool is but the extension of a man's hand, and a machine is but a complex tool. He that invents a machine augments the power of man and the well-being of mankind.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point read more

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to read more

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. -Henry Ward Beecher.

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this read more

Man is at the bottom an animal, midway, a citizen, and at the top, divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.