Quote

The elms of New England! They are as much a part of her beauty as the columns of the Parthenon were the glory of its architecture.

Henry Ward Beecher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry Ward Beecher
Journalist
Minister
Politician
Theologian
Litchfield (town)
Connecticut
Tree
Beauty
Part
Elms
Much
Parthenon
Columns
Architecture
England
Glory

More quotes by Henry Ward Beecher

Image
Men will let you abuse them if only you will make them laugh.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Self-contemplation is apt to end in self-conceit.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is a power in the human mind ... to see things as they are ... but there is equally a power to see things as they might be.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Every green thing loves to die in bright colors. The vegetable cohorts march glowing out of the year in flaming dresses, as if to leave this earth were a triumph and not a sadness. It is never nature that is sad, but only we, that dare not look back on the past, and that have not its prophecy of the future in our bosoms.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Love is the world's river of life
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A world without a Sabbath would be like a man without a smile, like summer without flowers, and like a homestead without a garden. It is the most joyous day of the week.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Let every man come to God in his own way.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There are apartments in the soul which have a glorious outlook from whose windows you can see across the river of death, and into the shining city beyond but how often are these neglected for the lower ones, which have earthward-looking windows.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
I think you might dispense with half your doctors if you would only consult Dr. Sun more.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows that he cannot or ought not to requite it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Nature would be scarcely worth a puff of the empty wind if it were not that all Nature is but a temple, of which God is the brightness and the glory.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
A lie always needs a truth for a handle to it. The worst lies are those whose blade is false, but whose handle is true.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Men must read for amusement as well as for knowledge.
Henry Ward Beecher
Image
Men judge of Christians by taking as fair samples those that lie rotten on the ground.
Henry Ward Beecher