E.W. Howe Quotes

One great flaw in the reforming passion is that in its eagerness to remedy social wrongs it tends to neglect, certainly to undervalue, the experience of those whose lives it wishes to improve.

Taste speaks through a turn of phrase, a curl of the lip, a shrug of the shoulder: it makes an atmosphere.

Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.

Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.

Politeness induces morality. Serenity of manners requires serenity of mind.

I am living. I remember you.

A barrier to communication is something that keeps meanings from meeting.

If history is a record of survivors, Poetry shelters other voices.

A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.

Banning books is just another form of bullying. It's all about fear and an assumption of power. The key is to address the fear and deny the power.

About all some men accomplish in life is to send a son to Harvard.

A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

At the end of the day, the Arsenal fans demand that we put eleven players on the pitch

There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.

People never have confidence in a Big Talker. They know his statements must be cut down, but they can never tell how much.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

The kid looks good in his first game.

Comedy speaks for civilization; farce bears an ill-concealed, sometimes unconcealed animus against civilization. Often against civility too.

Good readers make much out of little.

And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear

Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.

I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me; As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.

The way of the world is, to praise dead saints, and persecute living ones.

Soundwaves. It’s the difference between one stillness and another stillness.

Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.

But remember. Just because you don't believe in something doesn't mean it isn't real.

The Saudis would struggle in Europe because of that problem with those prayers five times a day.

A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

Good manners do more for a man that good looks.

Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.