It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward BeecherHe that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.
Henry Ward BeecherIf a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.
Henry Ward BeecherThe worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
Henry Ward Beecher