Harriet Beecher Stowe

The greater the interest involved in a truth the more careful, self-​distrustful, and patient should be the inquiry.

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place, because, such as it is, it is better than nothing.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Letter to William Lloyd Garrison (1853).