Flowers and fruit from the writings of Harriet Beecher Stowe

by Harriet Beecher Stowe

SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS.

Lost confidence.

There are some people who involve in themselves so many of the elements which go to make up our confidence in human nature generally, that to lose confidence in them seems to undermine our faith in human virtue.

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Wit.

Truly, wit, like charity, covers a multitude of sins. A man who has the faculty of raising a laugh in this sad, earnest world is remembered with indulgence and complacency.

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Value of ready expression.

But so it always is. The man who has exquisite gifts of expression passes for more, popularly, than the man with great and grand ideas, who utters but imperfectly.