Altars Quote by Julia Ward Howe

“In all outward aspects he remained patient and mild now, not caring even to speak against heretics; he knew that he was likely to…

— Ackroyd Peter

He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

“For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to…

— Herman Melville

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave,…

— Julia Ward Howe

“For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and be murdered, in order to…

— Herman Melville

“He was, and is yet, most likely, the wearisomest, self-righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself, and fling…

— Emily Brontë

There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a…

— Thomas Wolfe

“He never read a book but often thought about God; it was unavoidable, a matter of simplicity and awe. The starry sky, the soughing…

— Knut Hamsun

“In his imagination he was far away in a little Western town with a missionary minister who was poor, sick, worried, and almost alone…

— Eleanor H. Porter

“O where does he stalk like a horse in pastures very far afield? I cannot hear him, and silence writes more terrible things than…

— Elizabeth Smart

“But pity there was none. For all his old age, and his one arm, and his blind eyes, he must die the death and…

— Herman Melville

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice...

— George Herbert