More from Harriet Beecher Stowe

  1. In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
  2. One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; o…
  3. That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes…
  4. Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practic…
  5. Not only was he ignorant, but he had not even those conditions within himself which made knowledge possible. All that there was developed o…
  6. The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of e…
  7. Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
  8. 'Well, mother, people have different names for different things. I hear a great deal about Ellery Davenport's tact and knowledge of the wor…

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