Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

The benevolent gentleman is sorry; but, then, the thing happens every day! One sees girls and mother...

'Cause I's wicked - I is. I's mighty wicked anyhow I can't help it.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday...

It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; ...

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, th...

It is a great mistake to suppose that a woman with no heart will be an easy creditor in the exchange...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be ver...

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty ...

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

In Tom's hurried exchange, he had not forgotten to transfer his cherished Bible to his pocket. It wa...

The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you 'til it seems as though you could n...

Human nature is above all things lazy.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could n...

One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as ...

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The past the present and the future are really one: they are today.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world and he has deep in hi...

Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed

They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.

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

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power o...

Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floo...

But now what? Why, now comes my master, takes me right away from my work, and my friends, and all I ...

He was as bold as a lion about it, and 'mightily convinced' not only himself, but everybody that hea...

Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you.I hate reasoning, John,—especially reasoning on such sub...

Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me.

«It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,...

In the midst of life we are in death,'" said Miss Ophelia.

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and asce...

«In my opinion, it is you considerate, humane men, that are responsible for all the brutality and ou...

Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one s...

And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not...

An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels s...

Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and p...

I tell you," said Augustine, "if there is anything that revealed with the strength of a divine law i...

Alfred . . . stands, high and haughty, on that good old respectable ground, the right of the stronge...

the country is almost ruined with pious white people: such pious politicians as we have just before ...

...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

«Couldn't never be nothin' but a nigger, if I was ever so good,» said Topsy. «If I could be skinned,...

He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or ...

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of thi...

Her husband’s suffering and dangers, and the danger of her child, all blended in her mind, with a co...

We ought to be free to meet and mingle, --to rise by our individual worth, without any consideration...

It is with the oppressed, enslaved, African race that I cast in my lot; and if I wished anything, I ...

For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninterest...

Deeds of heroism are wrought here more than those of romance, when, defying torture, and braving dea...

If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship, - a boundless worship and belief in some ...

Your Kentuckian of the present day is a good illustration of the doctrine of transmitted instincts a...

Liberty! -- Electric word!

Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a stor...

The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll h...

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

Well," said St. Clare, "suppose that something shoul bring down the price of cotton once and forever...

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all ...

It's pretty generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do abou...

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness in the dust of daily l...

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives to give you at once the k...

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.