Harriet Beecher Stowe on good and evil

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

True love ennobles and dignifies the material labors of life; and homely services rendered for love’s sake have in them a poetry that is immortal.

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don’t doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men’s.

All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke1729–1797

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Blaise Pascal1623–1662

• Anti-Religion

The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein1879–1955