Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowewas an American abolitionist and author. She came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. It depicts the harsh life for African Americans under slavery. It reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth14 June 1811
CityLitchfield, CT
CountryUnited States of America
Harriet Beecher Stowe quotes about
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
Friendships are discovered rather than made.
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.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.
...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
A woman's health is her capital.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.
The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.
Cause I's wicked, - I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true
Cathedrals do not seem to me to have been built. They seem, rather, stupendous growths of nature, like crystals, or cliffs of basalt.