Quotes by Harriet Beecher Stowe


Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
– 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
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Human nature is above all things lazy.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
A woman's health is her capital.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe