I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred - that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt.

Quote by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Topics: Duty Quotes

Mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Mothers are instinctive philosophers.

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, never give up...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the...

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why...

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why...

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and...

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and...

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language,...

If it were admitted that the great object is to read and enjoy a language,...

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is...

Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserved; it is...

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas,...

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas,...

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into...

I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into...

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will...

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems...

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems...

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone

The bitterest tear shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

Every state funeral that shines is on its decline

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to...

The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to...

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the...

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the...

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness...

It is the State which educates its citizens in civic virtue, gives them a consciousness...

In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to...

In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to...