Julia Ward Howe Quotes

It is always legitimate to wish to rise above one's self, never above others.

I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.

We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn All that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy, and patience. We, the women of one country, will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to injure theirs.

I shall stick to my resolution of writing always what I think no matter whom it offends.

Any religion which will sacrifice a certain set of human beings for the enjoyment or aggrandizement or advantage of another is no religion. It is a thing which may be allowed, but it is against true religion. Any religion which sacrifices women to the brutality of men is no religion.

Life is like a cup of tea, the sugar is all at the bottom!

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

I want to take the word Christianity back to Christ himself, back to that mighty heart whose pulse seems to throb through the world today, that endless fountain of charity out of which I believe has come all true progress and all civilization that deserves the name. I go back to that great Spirit which contemplated a sacrifice for the whole of humanity. That sacrifice is not one of exclusion, but of an infinite and endless and joyous inclusion. And I thank God for it.

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.

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

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Education keeps the key of life; and liberal education insures the first conditions of freedom,--namely, adequate knowledge and accustomed thought.

As men have often forsaken the plough and the anvil at the summons of war, let women now leave all that may be left of home for a great and earnest day of counsel. Let them meet first, as women, to bewail and commemorate the dead. Let them solemnly take counsel with each other as to the means whereby the great human family can live in peace.

There is no hell like that of a selfish heart, and there is no misfortune so great as that of not being able to make a sacrifice. These two thoughts come to me strongly this morning. It is something to have learned these truths so that we can never again doubt them.

As He died to make men holy, let us live to make men free.

I think nothing is religion which puts one individual absolutely above others, and surely nothing is religion which puts one sex above another.

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

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless creed: 'T was red with the blood of freemen and white with the fear of the foe; And the stars that fight in their courses 'gainst tyrants its symbols know.

It is not good for beauty that it should be a profession.

Don't you think that the best things are already in view?

In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own.

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

Every fallen woman represents a man as guilty as herself, who escapes human detection, but whose soul lies open before God.