Stowe

Famous quotes containing the word stowe:

    The obstinancy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinancy of folly and inanity.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    The longest day must have its close—the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)

    Whatever offices of life are performed by women of culture and refinement are thenceforth elevated; they cease to be mere servile toils, and become expressions of the ideas of superior beings.
    —Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)