Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes about Literature

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Friendships are discovered rather than made.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Literature, Made

A woman's health is her capital.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fitness Motivational, Women's Health, Literature

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868). “The Chimney-corner”, p.126

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Clever, Literature, Reason

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.70

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Literature, Common, Endeavor

Catharine Beecher, Harriet Beecher Stowe (2008). “American Woman's Home”, p.189, Applewood Books

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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Trying, Mediocrity, Literature

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Household papers and stories”

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Lazy, Literature, Laziness

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.561, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Faith, Literature, Heathen

Harriet Beecher Stowe (2016). “Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe: Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe”, p.199, Library of Alexandria