Harriet Beecher Stowe

The heart has no tears to give – it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The water of the river is the calmest, where the deepest.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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

We never know how we love til we try to unlove!

Harriet Beecher Stowe

What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women are the real architects of society.

Harriet Beecher Stowe