335 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

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!

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

It is always our treasure that the lightning strikes.

Self respect is impossible without liberty....

The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.