Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

Intemperance in eating is one of the most fruitful of all causes of disease and death.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Let 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.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

There is more done with pens than with swords.

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

O, 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?

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.