Famous quotes containing the words harriet beecher and/or beecher:
“Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)
“The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)