• Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.

    Henry Ward Beecher: Some men think that the globe is a sponge that God puts into their hands to squeeze for their own garden or flower-pot.
    Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.117