Harriet Beecher Stowe Quote

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.


Stories, Sketches and Studies (1896)


It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch:...

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch:...

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch:...

It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch:...