I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
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 Stowe