335 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don’t doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men’s.

He says that there can be no high civilization without enslavement of the masses, either nominal or real. There must, he says, be a lower class, given up to physical toil and confined to an animal nature; and a higher one thereby acquires leisure and wealth for a more expanded intelligence and improvement, and becomes the directing soul of the lower. So he reasons, because, as I said, he is born an aristocrat; – so I don’t believe, because I was born a democrat.

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

In the midst of life we are in death,‘” said Miss Ophelia.

Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature, – loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be.

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don’t know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason’s sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

Obeying God never brings on public evils. I know it can’t. It’s always safest, all round, to do as He bids us.