the temperaments of children are often as oddly unsuited to parents as if capricious fairies had been filling cradles with changelings..

Women's Day Women are the real architects of society..

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience..

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room..

Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under th….

The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich ….

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man..

I wrote what I did because as a woman, as a mother, I was oppressed and broken-hearted with the sorrows and injustice I saw, because as a Christian I….

There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it..

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear..

The human heart yearns for the beautiful in all ranks of life. The beautiful things that God makes are His gift to all alike. I know there are many o….

Friendships are discovered rather than made..

O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in ….

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend..

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

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

These Germans seem an odd race, a mixture of clay and spirit - what with their beer-drinking and smoking, and their slow, stolid ways, you would thin….

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery..

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen..

I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation..

In lecturing on cookery, as on housebuilding, I divide the subject into, not four, but five grand elements: first, Bread; second,Butter; third, Meat;….