I would much rather fight pride than vanity, because pride has a stand-up way of fighting. You know where it is. It throws its black shadow on you, and you are not at a loss where to strike. But vanity is that delusive, that insectiferous, that multiplied feeling, and men that fight vanities are like men that fight midges and butterflies. It is easier to chase them than to hit them.
Henry Ward BeecherThe gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star makes in rising. All great developments complete themselves in the world and modestly wait in silence, praising themselves never, and announcing themselves not at all. We must be sensitive, and sensible, if we would see the beginnings and endings of great things. That is our part.
Henry Ward BeecherGod made the human body, and it is the most exquisite and wonderful organization which has come to us from the divine hand.
Henry Ward BeecherIf we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising.
Henry Ward Beecher