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It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Scenes 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 STOWE

Blood Cruelty Heart Man Nerve
It isn’t mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Experience Goodness Knowledge Love Need Sick
Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Cry Eyes Sorrow
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Alone Learning Live Ourselves People Responsibility Science
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Circle Goodness Greatness Ordinary Quality Soul View
A woman’s health is her capital.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Capital Health Woman
Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep
There is more done with pens than with swords.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Inspirational Strength Sword Weapon Writing
Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Death Eat Fruit Sick
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Impossible Liberty Literature Nation Natural People Respect
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Home Immortal Labor Life Love Material Poetry Service True
There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Kind Logic Nature Poetry Walk Wings World
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.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Direction Doubt Hit Myself Praise See
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Myself Privacy Room Writing
The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Discipline Eternal Glory Pain Short
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

Beautiful Old Wake Up Woman Young