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Harriet Beecher Stowe

WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes

Posted on April 23, 2001 at 6:29 PM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new.
—Harriet Beecher Stowe, Old Town Folks

Posted on February 27, 2002 at 6:15 AM

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