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 are bad for, rather than what they are good for.Collection: Passion
In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.Collection: Sight
Heaven knows what I have not been through with, since I saw you-dust, dirt, dyspepsia, hotels, railroads, prairies, tobacco juice.Collection: Dust
It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.Collection: Long
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
 all that we have been able to teach them of charity, mercy and patience.Collection: Taken
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is wisdom to the mighty, he is succour to the brave, So the world shall be his footstool, and the soul of Time his slave, Our God is marching on.Collection: Morning
All the sugar was in the bottom of the cup.Collection: Sugar
The reason why education is usually so poor among women of fashion is, that it is not needed for the life which they elect to lead.Collection: Education
Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.Collection: Drawing
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: "As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.Collection: Crush
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: / He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.Collection: God