Harriet Beecher Stowe

"War is the failure of human wisdom."

"Death is but a transition to another state of being."

"Money is a means, not an end."

"The greatest power lies within each individual soul."

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

"Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

"When you feel a man's collar around your neck choking you, you know what slavery is."

"I am the mother of six children, and I believe I could manage to govern the nation better than many of those who now do."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing."

"So much has been said and written about woman's rights that I am positively sick of it."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"Common sense is in some respects the best sense."

"The life and its shadows and sunshine are each made beautiful by the other."

"Whip the slaves if you must, but whip them fairly."

"To love as Christ loves is an infinite thing."

"I long for a day when all people can look on each other as equals."

"A mother's heart is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

"The most important thing is not the years in your life, but the life in your years."

"No one is so miserable as one who is not resigned to his condition."

"Genius is not born; it is cultivated through study and practice."

"The greatest want of the world is the want of men—men who will not be bought or sold."

"What is the use of trying to get rid of slavery by colonization?"

"I feel so much the responsibility of the pure and disinterested motives."

"All those old prejudices fade away when beauty is revealed."

"The slave mother's lament is heard across every nation."

"There is no slave like a woman who does not know her own power."

"I write not for the learned, but for the common people."

"The strength of a woman lies in her ability to endure."

"Tears are the luxury of the afflicted."