Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature--and only that. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Oh my Eva, whose little hour on earth did so much good... what account have I to give for my long years?” — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and… — 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
“He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Soon after the completion of his college course, his whole nature was kindled into one intense and passionate effervescence of romantic passion.… — 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
