A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.
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 BeecherThe imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization. It is the very eye of faith.
Henry Ward BeecherA man's religion is himself. If he is right-minded toward God, he is religious; if the Lord Jesus Christ is his schoolmaster, then he is Christianly religious.
Henry Ward Beecher