“The truth is larger than any one man's thought of it.”

— Henry Ward Beecher, The Nature, Importance and Liberties of Belief (1873)

About Henry Ward Beecher

1813 – 1887

American clergyman and social reformer.

“Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.”

“He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.”

“Where is human nature so weak as in a book store?”

“Remember that all is opinion.”

“Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.”

“Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”

“I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment.”

“When public opinion changes, it is with the rapidity of thought.”

“Every judgment in science stands on the edge of error and is personal.”