Quotes about Henry
Not another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Its home is in the world; and to know what it is, we must seek it in the world, and hear the world's witness of it.
- John Henry Newman
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry.
- Oscar Wilde
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
- Henry David Thoreau
Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.
- Henry David Thoreau
Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.
- Henry Ward Beecher
To say that a scientist can disprove the existence of God is like saying a mechanic can disprove the existence of Henry Ford. It doesn't follow.
- Frank Turek
Even poetry, you know, is in one sense an infinite brag & exaggeration.
- Henry David Thoreau
There are sorrows that are not painful, but are of the nature of some acids, and give piquancy and flavor to life.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We inspire friendship in men when we have contracted friendship with the gods.
- Henry David Thoreau