Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
Quotations by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Other quotes and quotations :

• No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Mothers are the most instinctive philosophers. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself. Voltaire
• Liberty may be endangered by the abuse of liberty, but also by the abuse of power. James Madison
• Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill. Sir Samuel Garth
• A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. William Murray
• The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time. Luis Bunuel
• We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. Jean De La Bruyere