Julia Ward Howe

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

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.

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

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence indicate possession.

I was born 'neath a clouded star.

I never could be good when I was not happy.

When the unwelcome little unborn shall have seen the light my brain will be lightened, and I shall have a clearer mind. Thank God that even this weary nine months shall come to an end and leave me in possession of my own body and my own soul.

The frozen ocean... of Boston life.

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

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

Marriage, like death, is a debt we owe to nature.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.