335 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Self respect is impossible without liberty...

My country!” said George, with a strong and bitter emphasis; “what country have I, but the grave, – and I wish to God that I was laid there!

But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

The book is commended to the candid attention and earnest prayers of all true Christians, throughout the world. May they unite their prayers that Christendom may be delivered from so great an evil as slavery.

I’ve lost everything in this world, and it’s clean gone, forever – and now I can’t lose heaven, too; no, I can’t get to be wicked, besides all.

I don’t know anything about politics, but I can read my Bible, and there I see that I must feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and comfort the desolate; and that Bible I mean to follow.

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee; for I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour.

Children will grow up substantially what they are by nature – and only that.