Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes About Expectations

Quotes about: Expectations

• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Children, Men, America

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (Complete)”, p.174, Library of Alexandria

• A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  New York, Children, Men

  MRS. HARRIET BEECHER STOWE (1854). “`SUNNY MEMORIES OF FOREIGN LANDS”, p.31

• It would be an incalculable gain to domestic happiness, if people would begin the concert of life with their instruments tuned to a very low pitch: they who receive the most happiness are generally they who demand and expect the least.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  People, Expectations, Would Be

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.124

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