Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.
It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world.
O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.
the Lord gives good many things twice over; but he don't give ye a mother but once.
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings.
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?
Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.