Man is at the bottom an animal, midway a citizen, and at the top divine. But the climate of this world is such that few ripen at the top.
Henry Ward BeecherEverything that happens in this world is a part of a great plan of God running through all time.
Henry Ward BeecherPoverty is very good in poems but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons but very bad in practical life.
Henry Ward BeecherIn a great affliction there is no light either in the stars or in the sun; for when the inward light is fed with fragrant oil; there can be no darkness though the sun should go out. But when, like a sacred lamp in the temple, the inward light is quenched, there is no light outwardly, though a thousand suns should preside in the heavens.
Henry Ward Beecher