Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let… — 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
O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
'Who was your mother?' 'Never had none!' said the child, with another grin. 'Never had any mother? What do you mean? Where… — 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
That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great… — 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
The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are His gift to… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other;… — 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
