Harriet Beecher Stowe

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

“Women are the real architects of society.”

“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”

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

“I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.”

“The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.”

“It's a matter of taking the side of the <strong class="highlight">weakstrong> against the strong, something the best people have always done.”

“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum; you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”

“Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.”

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”

“I make no manner of doubt that you have seen exactly what you have described. But, my dear child, you have had a vision... what you have seen is a allegory... a soul vision, and not a fact.”

“So much is said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?”

“Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! I think I should have been glad to have been a slave from my youth.”

“There's no saying what you can do when you are put to it.”

“Human nature is above all things lazy.”