75 Top Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe Quotes That Will Touch Your Heart
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn.
...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
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.
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.
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
I am braver than I was because I have lost all; and he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
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!
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.
Women are the real architects of society.
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.
And, perhaps, among us may be found generous spirits, who do not estimate honour and justice by dollars and cents.
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.
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I did not write it. (Uncle Tom's Cabin) God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter.
Humankind above all is lazy.
