335 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

How then shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given? . . . No: there must be a full concentration of the thoughts and affections on Christ; a complete surrender of the whole being to Him; a constant looking to Him for grace.

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second,Butter; third, Meat; fourth, Vegetables; and fifth, Tea--by which I mean, generically, all sorts of warm, comfortable drinks served out in teacups, whether they be called tea, coffee, chocolate, broma, or what not. I affirm that, if these five departments are all perfect, the great ends of domestic cookery are answered, so far as the comfort and well-being of life are concerned.

...care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light ...

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

Can anybody tell what sorrows are locked up with our best affections, or what pain may be associated with every pleasure?

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.