Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
Henry Ward BeecherYou cannot sift out the poor from the community. The poor are indispensable to the rich.
Henry Ward BeecherIt is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
Henry Ward BeecherNot another flag has such an errand, carrying everywhere, the world around, such hope for freedom such glorious tidings.
Henry Ward Beecher