More from Harriet Beecher Stowe

  1. Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.
  2. 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.
  3. 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…
  4. I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
  5. There is more done with pens than with swords.
  6. I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it.
  7. The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
  8. So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!

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