Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes
"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Harm)
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Deeds, Tears, Words)
"The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Cleverness, Folly, Nothing, Obstinacy, Reason)
"The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Future, Past, Present, Today)
"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."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Life, Virtue)
"To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Worth)
"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."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Time, Will)
"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Time, Will)
"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Abuse)
"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."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Mediocrity)
"Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Music, Ideas, Expression, Painting, Spiritual)
"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."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: People, Body, Circumstances, Mind)
"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Beauty, Women, Girls, Old)
"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Mothers)
"A woman's health is her capital."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Health, Woman)
"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."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: America, Children, EnglExpectation, Houses, Living, Man)
"Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Mind, Sorrow)
"Friendships are discovered rather than made."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Human nature is above all things lazy."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Nature, Human nature)
"I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: God)
"I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Faith, Being)
"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."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Life, God, Heart)
"It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: People)
"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."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Related: Women, Cleanliness, Courtesy, Order)