The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others. — 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
There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string… — 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
