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
What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.
Women's Day Women are the real architects of society.
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
There is no phase of the Italian mind that has not found expression in its music.
Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.
it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
the heaviest anguish often precedes a return tide of joy and courage.
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp ...
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.