Henry Ward Beecher
  • Laughter is day, and sobriety is night a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

  • Law represents the effort of man to organize society governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

  • Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  • He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  • In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.