335 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

I am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt...If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.