If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
Harriet Beecher StoweI am one of the sort that lives by throwing stones at other people's glass houses, but I never mean to put up one for them to stone.
Harriet Beecher StoweCommon sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
Harriet Beecher StoweNo ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them.
Harriet Beecher StoweThe 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 of the poor who have fine feeling and a keen sense of the beautiful, which rusts out and dies because they are too hard pressed to procure it any gratification.
Harriet Beecher Stowe