Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

American - Author June 14, 1811 - July 1, 1896

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

It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

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

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

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe