Julia Ward Howe Quotes


"Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Religion, Discipline, Agreement, Doctrine)

"Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: People, Boston)

"Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Balance, Blood, Justice, Murder, Possession, Violence)

"God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Nature, God, Wrong)

"How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Society, Thoughts)

"I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: People)

"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."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Happiness, Fear, Feeling, Future, Melancholy, Nothing, Past, Remembrance)

"I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Resolution, Writing)

"I take refuge in my books."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Books)

"I was born 'neath a clouded star."
- Julia Ward Howe
"Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Nature, Death, Marriage, Debt)

"Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Women, Old)

"The frozen ocean... of Boston life."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Life, Boston, Ocean)

"The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Needs, Pen)

"Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Wisdom, Theology)

"When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: God, Soul, Body, End, Light, Mind, Months, Possession, Will)

"While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?"
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Life, Faith, Fear, Expression)

"I never could be good when I was not happy."
- Julia Ward Howe
"The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community."
- Julia Ward Howe
(Related: Blind, Community)