“In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my… — 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
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
“If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship, - a boundless worship and belief in some hero of your soul, -… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless.… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future. — 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
There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the… — 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
