Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
Henry Ward BeecherA helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity.
Henry Ward BeecherThe little troubles and worries of life may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping-stones to a nobler character and to Heaven. Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
Henry Ward BeecherThe morbid states of health, the irritableness of disposition arising from unstrung nerves, the impatience, the crossness, the fault-finding of men, who, full of morbid influences, are unhappy themselves, and throw the cloud of their troubles like a dark shadow upon others, teach us what eminent duty there is in health.
Henry Ward Beecher