Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.
Self respect is impossible without liberty.
...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best regulated administration of slavery.
The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.
If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.
Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.
I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself.
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
Love is very beautiful, but very, very sad.
Sweet souls around us watch us still, press nearer to our side; Into our thoughts, into our prayers, with gentle helpings glide.
Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.
General rules will bear hard on particular cases.
he who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
The Negro is an exotic of the most gorgeous and superb countries of the world, and he has deep in his heart a passion for all that is splendid, rich and fanciful.
When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful stillness reigneth evermore. Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests dieth And silver waves chime ever peacefully, And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyeth Disturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.
We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.
There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.
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