The ship, built on one element, but designed to have its life in another, seemed an image of the soul, formed and fashioned with many a weary hammer-stroke in this life, but finding its true element only when it sails out into the ocean of eternity.
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...the heart has no tears to give,--it drops only blood, bleeding itself away in silence.
Harriet Beecher StoweTo 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.
Harriet Beecher Stowe