Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Youth

• As the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beautiful, Art, Years

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.56

• There is in youth a purity of character which, when once touched and defiled, can never be restored; a fringe more delicate than frost-work, and which, when torn and broken, can never be re-embroidered.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Character, Broken, Frost

  Henry Ward Beecher (1859). “Summer in the soul; or, Views and experiences”, p.215

• Age and youth look upon life from the opposite ends of the telescope; it is exceedingly long,--it is exceedingly short.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Opposites, Long, Age

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.109

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