“Any mind that is capable of real sorrow is capable of good.”– Harriet Beecher Stowe Related Quotes “In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.”– Frances E. Willard “Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery.”– Edward Gibbon “More negatives write than call. It’s a cheap shot for me to go on the air with the critical letters or E-mail I get because the reaction of the listeners is always an instantaneous expression of sympathy for me and contempt for the poor critic.”– John Hall