Quotes by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentall >>

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till >>

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, >>

Quotations about Saints

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. >>

Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint. >>

Saintliness is also a temptation. >>

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher