Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

As oil will find its way into crevices where water cannot penetrate, so song will find its way where speech can no longer enter.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

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

Love needs new leaves every summer of life, as much as your elm-tree, and new branches to grow broader and wider, and new flowers at the root to cover the ground.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Money is a great help everywhere; can’t have too much, if you get it honestly.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Harriet Beecher Stowe