The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.

- 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

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for t…

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

We can make ourselves say the kind things that rise in our hearts and tremble on our lips - do the gentle and helpful deeds which we long to do and s…

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

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

- Harriet Beecher Stowe