Funerals Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

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

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe