The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the most illusive… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so,… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age… sympathy as a fine art is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share
