Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes & Sayings

“Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.”

“All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.”

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

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