Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Skins

• Doctrine is nothing but the skin of truth set up and stuffed.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Skins, Doctrine, Agnosticism

  Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.307

• A good digestion is as truly obligatory as a good conscience; pure blood is as truly a part of mankind as a pure faith; and a well ordered skin is the first condition of that cleanliness which is next to Godliness.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blood, Skins, Next

• Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would not get through their skins.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Time, Humor, People

  Henry Ward Beecher, Eleanor Kirk (1887). “Beecher as a Humorist: Selections from the Published Works of Henry Ward Beecher”

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