Julia Ward Howe

We, women of one country, Will be too tender of those of another country To allow our sons to be trained to…

— Julia Ward Howe

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord -

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— Julia Ward Howe

All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.

— Julia Ward Howe

How utterly are one's best thoughts invaded by this going out in society.

— Julia Ward Howe

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes…

— Julia Ward Howe

Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of…

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— Julia Ward Howe

The blind must not only be fed and housed and cared for; they must learn to make thir lives useful to the…

— Julia Ward Howe

I have never known my husband to approve any act of mine which I myself valued.

— Julia Ward Howe

“[The ideal aim of life is] to learn, to teach, to serve, to enjoy!”

— Julia Ward Howe

Every life has its actual blanks, which the ideal must fill up, or which else remain bare & profitless forever.

— Julia Ward Howe

I take refuge in my books.

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— Julia Ward Howe

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— Julia Ward Howe

Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding…

— Julia Ward Howe

The flag of our stately battles, not struggles of wrath and greed, Its stripes were a holy lesson, its spangles a deathless…

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— Julia Ward Howe

When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they…

— Julia Ward Howe

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

— Julia Ward Howe