Harriet Beecher Stowe

Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends, only they don’t know each other; but certain things, like poetry, music, and paintings are like the Freemason’s sign, they reveal the initiated to each other.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If women want any rights they had better take them, and say nothing about it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

Harriet Beecher Stowe