One should have expected some terrible enormities charged to those who are excluded from heaven, as the reason; but no,—they are condemned for not doing positive good, as if that included every possible harm. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Governments derive their just power from the consent of the governed - Harriet Beecher Stowe
When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on--for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he don't give ye a mother but once. - 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
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, until it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the time and place that the tide will turn. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
Women are the real architects of society. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. - Harriet Beecher Stowe
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. - Harriet Beecher Stowe