Harriet Beecher Stowe

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sensitive people never like the fatigue of justifying their instincts.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

A woman’s health is her capital.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.

Harriet Beecher Stowe