I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
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 STOWENever give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESo much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEI 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWELet us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere are griefs which grow with years.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMy vocation to preach on paper.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMany 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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIf we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEO, 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?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEPeople will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE