A reputation for good

“It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.”     Henry Ward Beecher

“To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.”     Henry Ward Beecher

“Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.”     Henry Ward Beecher

“We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.”     Henry Ward Beecher

“If a man cannot be a Christian in the place he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.”     Henry Ward Beecher