Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
Henry Ward BeecherOnly have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
Henry Ward BeecherOur sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.
Henry Ward BeecherHalf the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
Henry Ward BeecherI have known men who thought the object of conversion was to cleanse them as a garment is cleansed, and that when they are converted they were to be hung up in the Lord's wardrobe, the door of which was to be shut, so that no dust could get at them. A coat that is not used the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted, the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that.
Henry Ward Beecher