Talk:Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• It lies around us like a cloud—
  A world we do not see;
  Yet the sweet closing of an eye
  May bring us there to be.
  • The Other World.

• I 'spect I growed. Don't think nobody never made me.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• I's wicked I is. I's mighty wicked; anyhow I can't help it.
  • Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• 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.

• It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best people have always done.

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

• There is more done with pens than with swords.
  • This is very similar in theme to "Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword." by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

• 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.

• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

• Women are the real architects of society.