335 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

One of the greatest reforms that could be, in these reforming days ... would be to have women architects. The mischief with the houses built to rent is that they are all male contrivances.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.

I b'lieve in religion, and one of these days, when I've got matters tight and snug, I calculates to tend to my soul ...

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion?