Quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

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.

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread.

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers.

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Human nature is above all things lazy.

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

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

Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!

God washes the eyes by tears unil they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.

God has always been to me not so much like a father as like a dear and tender mother.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

The person who decides what shall be the food and drink of a family, and the modes of its preparation, is the one who decides, to a greater or less extent, what shall be the health of that family.

I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent.

Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment.

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and so difficult to convince.

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as evil is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected on. No one can fail to see that in our day it is becoming a very great agency.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

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?