Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.
Henry Ward BeecherA gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.
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 Beecher