The common schools are the stomachs of the country in which all people that come to us are assimilated within a generation. When a lion eats an ox, t… - Henry Ward Beecher

Christ is the ideal of what a man should be. He has my ideal portrait, as it were, drawn out in His own thought and feeling. There is an exaltation and a grandeur for myself in the time to come, which Christ knows, and I do not; but I am following after. I am pressing up toward that thought that Christ has of what I am and ought to be; and I am determined that I will apprehend it as Christ Himself does. Not that I have it; but I will strive for it. My manhood is in the future. My life lies beyond the present.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

Some men are like pyramids, which are very broad when they touch the ground, but grow narrower as they reach the sky.