• Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.

    Henry Ward Beecher: Perverted pride is a great misfortune in men; but pride in its original function, for which God created it, is indispensable to a proper manhood.
    Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”