Ordinarily rivers run small at the beginning, grow broader and broader as they proceed, and become widest and deepest at the point, where they enter the sea. It is such rivers that the Christian's life is like. But the life of the mere worldly man is like those rivers in Southern Africa, which, proceeding from mountain freshets, are broad and deep at the beginning, and grow narrower and more shallow as they advance. They waster themselves by soaking into the sands, and at last they die out entirely. The farther they run the less there is of them.
Henry Ward BeecherOf all man's works of art, a cathedral is greatest. A vast and majestic tree is greater than that.
Henry Ward BeecherSuccess is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
Henry Ward Beecher