Top 192 Quotes & Sayings by Harriet Beecher Stowe - Page 4

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

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

We hear often of the distress of the negro servants, on the loss of a kind master; and with good reason, for no creature on God's earth is left more utterly unprotected and desolate than the slave in these circumstances.

Great as the planning were for the dinner, the lot was so contrived that not a soul in the house be supposed to be kept from the break of day ceremony of Blessing in the church.

a true gentleman ... was characterized as the man that asks the fewest questions. This trait of refined society might be adopted into home-like in a far greater degree than it is, and make it far more agreeable.

There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.

I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

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

There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed.

Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.