Henry Ward Beecher: “Outside of a Divine and Authoritative Revelation, men have had but one way of estimating the value of man.”

They did not know enough of his origin, his nature, or his destiny, to bring these into account, in estimating man.

Mariners might as well blame you for the swing and toss of their craft when tides troop in or march out of your harbor, as us, for heaving to that tide which God swells under us.

The questions which have provoked discussion among us for fifty years past have not been questions of fundamental principles, but of the application of principles already ascertained.

New-England first formed those institutions which liberty requires for beneficient activity; and from her, both before and since the Revolution, they have been copied throughout the Land.