The Lord gives a good many things twice over, but he doesn't give ye a mother but once.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid rich and fanciful.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The past the present and the future are really one: they are today.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the streets of Rome.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

They will raise, and raise with them their mother's side.

— 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

Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Well," said St. Clare, "suppose that something should bring down the price of cotton once and forever, and make the whole slave property a drug in the market, don't you think we should soon have another version of the Scripture doctrine? What flood of light would pour the church, all at once, and immediately it would be discovered that everything in the bible and reason went the other way.

— Harriet Beecher Stowe