A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Human nature is above all things lazy.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

A woman's health is her capital.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe