335 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

«It's true, Christian-like or not; and is about as Christian-like as most other things in the world,» said Alfred.

Every nation that carries in its bosom great and unredressed injustice has in it the elements of this last convulsion.

Some jokes are less agreeable than others

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.

The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.

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

He invented mother's hearts--& he certainly has the pattern in his own.

And though it be not so in the physical, yet in moral science that which cannot be understood is not always profitless. For the soul awakes, a trembling stranger, between two dim eternities,—the eternal past, the eternal future. The light shines only on a small space around her; therefore, she needs must yearn towards the unknown; and the voices and shadowy movings which come to her from out the cloudy pillar of inspiration have each one echoes and answers in her own expecting nature.

Mary! Mary! My dear, let me reason with you.I hate reasoning, John,—especially reasoning on such subjects. There's a way you political folks have of coming round and round a plain right thing; and you don't believe in it yourselves, when it comes to practice. I know you well enough, John. You don't believe it's right any more than I do; and you wouldn't do it any sooner than I.