Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils,… — 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
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible… — 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 Image
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 Image
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
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 Image
God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
