Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

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Treat 'em like dogs, and you'll have dogs' works and dogs' actions. Treat 'em like men, and you'll have men's works.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, — roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

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.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The soul awakes... between two dim eternities — the eternal past, the eternal future.

Harriet Beecher Stowe