Henry Ward Beecher: “Accordingly they could do no better than to study him in his developments and rank him by the POWER which he manifested.”

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

If the power of producing effects is the criterion of value, the few will always be the most valuable, and the mass relatively, subordinate, and the weak and lowest will be left helplessly worthless.

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.

If he must stand by what he is, how surely must he be given over to weakness, to abuse, to oppressions.