Henry Ward Beecher : (4) " All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. " - Henry Ward Beecher " Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. " - Henry Ward Beecher " There are joys which long to be ours. God sends ten thousands truths, which come about us like birds seeking inlet; but we are shut up to them, and so they bring us nothing, but sit and sing awhile upon the roof, and then fly away. " - Henry Ward Beecher " The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. " - Henry Ward Beecher