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Henry Ward Beecher Quotes about Selfishness

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Selfishness at the expense of others happiness is demonism.

Henry Ward Beecher, Truman Jeremiah Ellinwood (1872). “The Original Plymouth Pulpit: Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.243

A gamester, as such, is the cool, calculating, essential spirit of concentrated, avaricious selfishness.

Henry Ward Beecher (1871). “Lectures to young men, on various important subjects”, p.160