Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.
Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.
I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
