Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.”

“So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.”

“Friendships are discovered rather than made.”

“Human nature is above all things lazy.”

“Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.”

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

“To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.”

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

“Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.”

“A woman's health is her capital.”