Harriet Beecher Stowe
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.Collection: Faith
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.Collection: Best
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.Collection: God
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.Collection: Time
Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.Collection: Sympathy
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.Collection: Forgiveness
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.Collection: Future
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.Collection: Great
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.Collection: Inspirational
A woman's health is her capital.Collection: Health
Human nature is above all things lazy.Collection: Nature
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.Collection: Women
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.
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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.
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.Collection: Giving
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.Collection: Children
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.Collection: Inspirational
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.Collection: Book
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.Collection: Success
There is more done with pens than with swords.Collection: Done
I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity - because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.Collection: Christian
Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.Collection: Eye
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.Collection: Truth
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!Collection: Essence
It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.Collection: Loss
Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.Collection: Angel
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Cooking
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.Collection: Pain
I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.Collection: Book
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.Collection: Doubt
I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.Collection: Uncles
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.Collection: Friendship
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.Collection: Strong
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.Collection: Love
Once, in an age, God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false imagining, an unreal character, but, looking through all the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, — loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.Collection: Angel
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!Collection: Men
How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness, on prayer, on action, on temptation, and on dangers? No, there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to him; a constant looking to him for grace.Collection: Christian
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.Collection: Falling In Love