Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad where they touch the ground, but grow narrow as they reach the sky.
Henry Ward BeecherO never harm the dreaming world, the world of green, the world of leaves, but let its million palms unfold the adoration of the trees Of all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
Henry Ward BeecherRefinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life.
Henry Ward Beecher