335 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.

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.

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

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but 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 beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

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

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

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