I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.

Of course, in a novel, people's hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.

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

it isn't mere love and good-will that is needed in a sick-room; it needs knowledge and experience.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

There is a great life-giving, warming power called Love, which exists in human hearts dumb and unseen, but which has no real life, no warming power, till set free by expression.