Beecher

Famous quotes containing the word beecher:

“A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.”
—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)

“What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.”
—Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896)