Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes - Page 6

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

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

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 to cover the ground.

At last I have come into a dreamland.

Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Rome is an astonishment!

Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true.

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

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

Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.

I don't know as I am fit for anything and I have thought that I could wish to die young and let the remembrance of me and my faults perish in the grave rather than live, as I fear I do, a trouble to everyone.... Sometimes I could not sleep and have groaned and cried till midnight.

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Women are the true modelers of social order.

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.

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty!

Humankind above all is lazy.

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don't know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason's sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.