Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully, is what history makes haste to record.
Henry Ward BeecherLaw represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.
Henry Ward BeecherI will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.
Henry Ward BeecherIf God but cares for our inward and eternal life, if by all the experiences of this life He is reducing it and preparing for its disclosure, nothing can befall us but prosperity. Every sorrow shall be but the setting of some luminous jewel of joy. Our very morning shall be but the enamel around the diamond; our very hardships but the metallic rim that holds the opal, glancing with strange interior fires.
Henry Ward Beecher