"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you until it seems that you cannot hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time when the tide will turn."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Once in an age God sends to some of us a friend who loves in us, not a false-imagining, an unreal character, but looking through the rubbish of our imperfections, loves in us the divine ideal of our nature,--loves, not the man that we are, but the angel that we may be."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die, and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us. There is a most busy and important round of eating, drinking, dressing, walking, visiting, buying, selling, talking, reading, and all that makes up what is commonly called living, yet to be gone through…"
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"It was the first time that ever George had sat down on equal terms at any white man's table; and he sat down, at first, with some constraint, and awkwardness; but they all exhaled and went off like fog, in the genial morning rays of this simple overflowing kindness.

This indeed, was a home, - home, -a word that George had never yet known a meaning for; and a belief in God, and trust in His providence, began to encircle his heart, as, with a golden cloud of protection and confidence, dark, misanthropic, pining, atheistic doubts, and fierce despair, melted away before the light of a living Gospel, breathed in living faces, preached by a thousand unconscious acts of love and good-will, which, like the cup of cold water given in the name of a disciple, shall never lose their reward."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"Humankind above all is lazy."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?"
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

"It is generally understood that men don't aspire after the absolute right, but only to do about as well as the rest of the world."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.
-Augustine St. Clare"
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt...If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"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. "
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn"
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day."
— 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

"But, of old, there was One whose suffering changed an instrument of torture, degradation and shame, into a symbol of glory, honor, and immortal life; and, where His spirit is, neither degrading stripes, nor blood, nor insults, can make the Christian's last struggle less than glorious."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"'O, that's what troubles me, papa. You want me to live so happy, and never to have any pain,—never suffer anything,—not even hear a sad story, when other poor creatures have nothing but pain and sorrow, all their lives,—it seems selfish. I ought to know such things, I ought to feel about them!'"
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

""His conversation was in free and easy defiance of Murray's Grammar, and was garnished at convenient intervals with various profane expressions, which not even the desire to be graphic in our account shall induce us to transcribe."
"
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin: Or, Life Among the Lowly)

""What's your hurry?"
"Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Now, there's no way with servants, but to put them down, and keep them down. It was always natural to me, from a child. Eva is enough to spoil a whole house-full. What will she do when she comes to keep house herself, I'm sure I don't know. I hold to being kind to servants - I always am; but you must make 'em know their place. Eva never does; there's no getting into the child's head the first beginning of an idea what a servant's place is! You heard her offering to take care of me nights, to let Mammy sleep! That's just a specimen of the way the child would be doing all the time, if she was left to herself."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"Let us resolve: First, to attain the grace of silence; second, to deem all fault finding that does no good a sin; third, to practice the grade and virtue of praise."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"But it is often those who have least of all in this life whom He chooseth for the kingdom. Put thy trust in Him and no matter what befalls thee here, He will make all right hereafter."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed. "
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"For, so inconsistent is human nature, especially in the ideal, that not to undertake a thing at all seems better than to undertake and come short."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

""But I want it done now, " said Miss Ophelia.
"What's your hurry?"
"Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

""Perhaps," said Miss Ophelia, "it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.""
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"Her face was round and rosy, with a healthful downy softness, suggestive of a ripe peach. Her hair, partially silvered by age, was parted smoothly back from a high placed forehead, on which time had written no inscription, except peace on earth, good will to men, and beneath shone a large pair of clear, honest, loving brown eyes; you only needed to look straight into them, to feel that you saw to the bottom of a heart as good and true as ever throbbed in woman's bosom. So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?"
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"...for twenty years or more, nothing but loving words, and gentle moralities, and motherly loving kindness, had come from that chair;--headaches and heartaches innumerable had been cured there,--difficulties spritual and temporal solved there,--all by one good, loving woman, God bless her!"
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

""Never give up for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.""
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"'I believe I'm done for," said Tom. "The cussed sneaking dog, to leave me to die alone! My poor old mother always told me 'twould be so.'"
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"I’s wicked I is. I’s mighty wicked; anyhow I can’t help it."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?"
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"Kalau anda dalam keadaan terjepit dan semua serasa memusuhi anda, sampai anda merasa tidak mampu lagi bertahan walau pun cuma semenit, jangan menyerah, sebab di tempat itu dan pada saat itu air pasang akan surut."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"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."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe

"There are in this world blessed souls, whose sorrows all spring up into joys for others; whose earthly hopes, laid in the grave with many tears, are the seed from which spring healing flowers and balm for the desolate and the distressed."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"In how many families do you hear the legend that all the goodness and graces of the living are nothing to the peculiar charms of one who is not. It is as if heaven had an especial band of angels, whose office it was to sojourn for a season here, and endear to them the wayward human heart, that they might bear it upward with them in their homewoard flight. When you see that deep, spiritual light in the eye,---when the little soul reveals itself in words sweeter and wiser than the ordinary words of children,---hope not to retain that child, for the seal of heaven is on it, and the light of immortality looks out from its eyes."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)

"What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly."
— Harriet Beecher Stowe (Uncle Tom's Cabin)