22 Quotes by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.

Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?

Imagination is built upon knowledge.

Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.