335 Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

They will rise, and raise with them their mother's side

My father showed the exact sort of talent for a statesman. He could have divided Poland as easily as an orange, or trod on Ireland as quietly and systematically as any living.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

Midnight,--strange mystic hour,--when the veil between the frail present and the eternal future grows thin.

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.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the life of any one individual, however obscure, if really and vividly perceived in all its aspirations, struggles, failures, and successes, would command the interest of all others.