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 Stowe Copy Share Image
Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful, ghostly, unquiet… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
When I have been travelling up and down on our boats, or about on my collecting tours, and reflected that every brutal,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room, from… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share
