"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself" — Henry Ward Beecher

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one

Source: Letter to Harriot Washington (Oct. 30, 1791)

In this world, a man must either be anvil or hammer

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

One is treated the same way as one treats other people

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do

Henry Ward Beecher Quote