Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.
Henry Ward BeecherThere is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.
Henry Ward BeecherGood nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward BeecherWhen a man's pride is subdued it's like the sides of Mount Aetna. It was terrible during the eruption, but when that is over and the lava is turned into soil, there are vineyards and olive trees which grow up to the top.
Henry Ward Beecher