Quotes by Julia Ward Howe
Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.
The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.
The longer I live, the more do I feel my childlike helplessness about all practical affairs.
I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.
We are fulfilling the destiny of women, we are learning to live for others more than for ourselves.
It is better not to entertain at all, than to entertain badly.
I am intent mainly upon holding on to the ropes, and upon getting through the present without too much consciousness of it.
God will help me! I am so tired!
I rush into your presence with all the madness of a disordered mind-it is your fault, yours.
His true devotion has won me from the world and from myself. I am the captive of his bow and spear.
He has been in a very dangerous state, very near insanity, and if I have done my best for him and my children for staying here, you will neither regret nor complain of it.
I find society most uninteresting after that of Rome-my books are now the only things for me.
I am able to think, to study and to pray, things which I cannot accomplish when my brain is oppressed.
Good ladies make good stewardesses.
I have been leading a very lonely and unsympathetic life ever since I came from Newport.
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.
When the ship rolled and I felt myself going, I generally made for the stoutest man in sight and pitched into him... little of the old mischief left, you see.
How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.
One might think that the genius of this age must have uttered a like injunction.
Life is so short, and friendship so precious!
While I am employed with frictions my husband is dealing with facts, but as we both seek truth which lies beyond either, we do not get so very far apart as you would think.
The doctor dismounted, and presently came to make our acquaintance. Dr. Howe made upon us an impression of unusual force and reserve.
Had I wanted to see something of society, it seemed hardly fair that I should never give myself an opportunity of judging and being judged by it.
Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.
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.
