Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.
Henry Ward BeecherNext to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.
Henry Ward BeecherThere is nothing that is so wonderfully created as the human soul. There is something of God in it. We are infinite in the future, though we are finite in the past.
Henry Ward BeecherGambling with cards or dice or stocks is all one thing. It's getting money without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward BeecherAs the imagination is set to look into the invisible and immaterial, it seems to attract something of their vitality; and though it can give nothing to the body to redeem it from years, it can give to the soul that freshness of youth in old age which is even more beautiful than youth in the young.
Henry Ward Beecher