When young men or women are beginning life, the most important period, it is often said, is that in which their habits are formed. That is a very important period. But the period in which the ideals of the young are formed and adopted is more important still. For the ideal with which you go forward to measure things determines the nature, so far as you are concerned, of everything you meet.
Henry Ward BeecherSelfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward BeecherA person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
Henry Ward BeecherThe call to religion is not a call to be better than your fellows, but to be better than yourself. Religion is relative to the individual.
Henry Ward Beecher