Julia Ward Howe Quotes
The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.
Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.
Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.
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.
Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
Familiarity so dulls the edge of perception as to make us least acquainted with things forming part of our daily life.
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.
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.
Charity is an unending self-discipline which always looks and leads towards the eternal affection. Therefore, its triumph shall be lasting and everlasting.
Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.
Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.
In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.
When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.
The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.
It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.
Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.
The greatest evils of society are goods that have refused to go on, but have sat down on the highway, saying to the world, "We stop here; do you stop also.
