22 Quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so, we can scarcely imagine that He could have offered anything much better in the way of material.

Truth, like climate, is common property.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited affection.

It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.

What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

Death is not the worst sorrow.

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.