Harriet Beecher Stowe - Old Town Folks (1869)

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When you get in a tight place and everything goes against you till it seems as though you could not hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the time and the place the tide will turn.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Greek is the morning land of languages, and has the freshness of early dew in it which will never exhale.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

People have wondered where the seat of original sin is; I think it 's in the stomach. A man eats too much and neglects exercise, and the Devil has him all his own way, and the little imps, with their long black fingers, play on his nerves like a piano. Never overwork either body or mind, boys. All the work that a man can do that can be rested by one night's sleep is good for him, but fatigue that goes into the next day is always bad.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

Harriet Beecher Stowe