Treat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWETreat ’em like dogs, and you’ll have dogs’ works and dogs’ actions. Treat ’em like men, and you’ll have men’s works.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEDogs 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 STOWEWitness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWESo subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIt 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 STOWEI never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEMoney is a great help everywhere; – can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEYour little child is the only true democrat.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEIn the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
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 STOWEFriendships are discovered rather than made.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThere 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 STOWEOne part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWEThe longest way must have its close – the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
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 STOWE