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Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Of course, in a novel, people’s hearts break, and they die and that is the end of it; and in a story this is very convenient. But in real life we do not die when all that makes life bright dies to us.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Breathe Bright Death End Heart Broken Life Novel Reality Story
All men are free and equal in the grave, if it comes to that.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Equality Freedom Grave Man
If I am to write, I must have a room to myself, which shall be my room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Myself Privacy Room Writing
It is one mark of a superior mind to understand and be influenced by the superiority of others.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Influence Mark Mindset Oneself Superiority
People who hate trouble generally get a good deal of it.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Deal Goodness Hate People Trouble
If you were not already my dearly loved husband I should certainly fall in love with you.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Fall In Love Husband Love Yourself
What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Circle Goodness Greatness Ordinary Quality Soul View
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, “Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Beautiful Chance Fresh Glory Immortal Man
O, what an untold world there is in one human heart!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Heart Human Told World
Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Drive Forever Land Man Myself Slave
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Clever Friendship Reason Sanity
O, ye who visit the distressed, do ye know that everything your money can buy, given with a cold, averted face, is not worth one honest tear shed in real sympathy?
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Cold Money Sympathy
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
To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Far Perfection Respect Worth
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Beautiful Old Wake Up Woman Young
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life’s undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Affection Home Place Room Strong