Friendships are discovered rather than made.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

A woman's health is her capital.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.
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