Top 20 Quotes by Julia Ward Howe

I never could be good when I was not happy.

Boston is an oasis in the desert, a place where the larger proportion of people are loving, rational and happy.

I sometimes think God allows Great Britain to be unprincipled for the good of mankind.

I take refuge in my books.

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

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

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.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

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

The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.