Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEFanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEFriendships are discovered rather than made.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEScenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe heart has no tears to give,–it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEHalf the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEEyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWhy don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEAny mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEWe 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEthere 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE