Quotes by Julia Howe

• I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.
• Beneath all differences of doctrine or discipline there exists a fundamental agreement as to the simple, absolute essentials in religion.
• Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.
• Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
• God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.
• How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.
• I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
• 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.
• I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
• I take refuge in my books.
• I was born 'neath a clouded star.
• Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.
• Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
• The frozen ocean... of Boston life.
• The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
• Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.
• 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.
• While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?
• I never could be good when I was not happy.
• The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the community.