Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes Click here for Henry Ward Beecher books The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher "No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions." "Humor is, however, nearer right than any emotion we have. Humor is the atmosphere in which grace most flourishes." "Any law that takes hold of a man’s daily life cannot prevail in a community, unless the vast majority of the community are actively in favor of it. The laws that are the most operative are the laws which protect life." "When a nation’s young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung." "The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, the lion does not become an ox but the ox becomes a lion." "Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own." "Words are pegs to hang ideas on."
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