I did not write it (Uncle Tom's Cabin). God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.

Only the one who walks his own way can't be overtaken.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.

Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has the nerve to do, man has not to nerve to hear.

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

General rules will bear hard on particular cases.

Self respect is impossible without liberty.

A woman's health is her capital.

So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

...it is impossible to make anything beautiful or desirable in the best-regulated administration of slavery.

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.

Eyes that have never wept cannot comprehend sorrow.

The pain of discipline is short, but the glory of the fruition is eternal.

Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!

There is more done with pens than with swords.

Friendships are discovered rather than made.