More from Harriet Beecher Stowe

  1. The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
  2. 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 wor…
  3. It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.
  4. Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
  5. In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
  6. Women are the real architects of society.
  7. Now, if the principle of toleration were once admitted into classical education - if it were admitted that the great object is to read and …
  8. It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

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