Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

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.

A woman's health is her capital.

Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

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.

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.

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.

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

Friendships are discovered rather than made.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.