Victories that are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Well married a person has wings, poorly married shackles.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves.

— Henry Ward Beecher

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

— 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.

— Henry Ward Beecher

We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.

— Henry Ward Beecher

What the mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

— Henry Ward Beecher

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

— Henry Ward Beecher