For fidelity, devotion, love, many a two-legged animal is below the dog and the horse. Happy would it be for thousands of people if they could stand at last before the Judgment Seat and say, I have loved as truly and have lived as decently as my dog, and yet we call them only brutes.
Henry Ward BeecherEverything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
Henry Ward BeecherA mother's prayers, silent and gentle, can never miss the road to the throne of all bounty.
Henry Ward BeecherIt is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
Henry Ward Beecher