Our moral faculties must be placed highest, else they can no more flourish than could a plant growing under the shade and drip of trees.
Henry Ward BeecherAll the sobriety which' religion needs or requires is that which real earnestness produces.
Henry Ward BeecherThe imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
Henry Ward BeecherSee to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such.
Henry Ward BeecherThe aster has not wasted spring and summer because it has not blossomed. It has been all the time preparing for what is to follow, and in autumn it is the glory of the field, and only the frost lays it low. So there are many people who must live forty or fifty years, and have the crude sap of their natural dispositions changed and sweetened before the blossoming time can come; but their lives have not been wasted.
Henry Ward Beecher