It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward BeecherThe diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.
Henry Ward BeecherThe religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise.
Henry Ward BeecherReason is a permanent blessing of God to the soul. Without it there can be no large religion.
Henry Ward Beecher