Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God.
Henry Ward BeecherWe should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward BeecherThere is an ugly kind of forgiveness in this world,--a kind of hedgehog forgiveness, shot out like quills. Men take one who has offended, and set him down before the blowpipe of their indignation, and scorch him, and burn his fault into him; and when they have kneaded him sufficiently with their fiery fists, then--they forgive him.
Henry Ward Beecher