53 quotes
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Little Foxes (1865)
True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love's sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.
Household Papers and Stories (1864)
By what strange law of mind is it that an idea long overlooked, and trodden under foot as a useless stone, suddenly sparkles out in new light, as a discovered diamond?
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Human nature is above all things — lazy.
Household Papers and Stories (1864)
In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.
The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862)
The obstinancy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinancy of folly and inanity.
Little Foxes (1865)
Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good not to do harm.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
Household Papers and Stories (1864)
The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862)
Women are the real architects of society.
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 that 's just the place and time that the tide 'll turn.
Old Town Folks (1869)
The longest way must have its close,—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
The Minister's Wooing (1859)
What shall a man do with a sublime tier of moral faculties, when the most profitable business out of his port is the slave-trade? So it was in Newport in those days.
The Minister's Wooing (1859)
I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light...
Household Papers and Stories (1864)
The horrid cruelties and outrages that once and a while find their way into the papers — such cases as Prue's, for example — what do they come from?
Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)