Harriet Beecher Stowe

“...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.”

“One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.”

“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

“Friendships are discovered rather than made.”

“I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.”

“It's a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I'll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I shall have a chance, I do! Things have got to a pretty pass, if a woman can't give a warm supper and a bed to poor, starving creatures, just because they are slaves, and have been abused and oppressed all their lives, poor things!"... "Now, John, I don't know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible; and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow.”

“I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.”

“A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.”

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.”

“It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.”

“An atmosphere of sympathetic influence encircles every human being; and the man or woman who feels strongly, healthily and justly, on the great interests of humanity, is a constant benefactor to the human race.”

“Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.”

“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.”

“For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short.”

“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”

“The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once.”