Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but 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.

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

So long as the law considers all these human beings, with beating hearts and living affections, only as so many things belonging to the master -- so long as the failure, or misfortune, or imprudence, or death of the kindest owner, may cause them any day to exchange a life of kind protection and indulgence for one of hopeless misery and toil -- so long it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.