Every city should make the common school so rich, so large, so ample, so beautiful in its endowments, and so fruitful in its results, that a private school will not be able to live under the drip of it.
Henry Ward BeecherSorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.
Henry Ward BeecherIt gives one a sudden start in going down a barren, stoney street, to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun.
Henry Ward BeecherA thoughtful mind, when it sees a nation's flag, sees not the flag, but the nation itself.
Henry Ward Beecher