Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

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

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up then, for that is just the time when the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day. - Harriet Beecher Stowe

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