Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

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

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

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

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

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

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

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

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

There is more done with pens than with swords.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

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, because as a Christian I felt the dishonor to Christianity - because as a lover of my county, I trembled at the coming day of wrath.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.

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

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.

Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.