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People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first. Perhaps it is impossible for a person who does no good to do no harm.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Capability Goodness Mindset Reality Sorrow
Dogs can bear more cold than human beings, but they do not like cold any better than we do; and when a dog has his choice, he will very gladly stretch himself on a rug before the fire for his afternoon nap.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Better Choice Cold Dog Happiness Human Sleep
Talk of the abuses of slavery! Humbug! The thing itself is the essence of all abuse!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Abuse Essence Slave Talk
Many a humble soul will be amazed to find that the seed it sowed in weakness, in the dust of daily life, has blossomed into immortal flowers under the eye of the Lord.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Eyes Flower Humble Immortal Soul Weakness
There are in this world two kinds of natures, – those that have wings, and those that have feet, – the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Kind Logic Nature Poetry Walk Wings World
O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Heart Human Told World
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
So subtle is the atmosphere of opinion that it will make itself felt without words.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Feeling Opinion Word
If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Delicate Destroy Fast Girl Shame Woman Young
He who has nothing to lose can afford all risks.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Afford Himself Lose Risk
One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people’s alone.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Alone Learning Live Ourselves People Responsibility Science
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Far Perfection Respect Worth
In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Black Equality Forever Grasp Hands
The literature of a people must so ring from the sense of its nationality; and nationality is impossible without self-respect, and self-respect is impossible without liberty.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Impossible Liberty Literature Nation Natural People Respect
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Give Up Place Time
When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn’t hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that ‘s just the place and time that the tide’ll turn.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Give Up Hold Place Time Yourself