Harriet Beecher Stowe

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Prayer is a long rope with a strong hold.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

That ignorant confidence in one’s self and one’s future, which comes in life’s first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

That’s right; put on the steam, fasten down the escape-valve, and sit on it, and see there you’ll land.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

Harriet Beecher Stowe