There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.
Henry Ward BeecherReligion, in one sense, is a life of self-denial, just as husbandry, in one sense, is a work of death.
Henry Ward BeecherWhen a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.
Henry Ward BeecherWere one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.
Henry Ward Beecher