Here's another one of those quotes found in my
'Blue Book'. Whether they're spoken by characters
from his books or by himself, I don't know. But I
like the way Henry Ward Beecher explained why
some of us do not enjoy God's goodness and mercy:
"There is dew in one flower and not in another,
because one opens its cup and takes it in,
while the other closes itself, and the dewdrops
run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as
widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it
is because we will not open our hearts to receive
them."
Besides the closed heart, there is also the cynical mind:
"The cynic is one who never sees a good quality
in a man and never fails to see a bad one.
He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and
blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never
seeing the noble game.
The cynic puts all human actions into two
classes - openly bad and secretly bad."
Actually sounds witty and funny, especially the last
line.
