As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.


The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn (ed. 1873)

Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around...

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around...

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around...

As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around...