70 Quotes by Helen Hunt Jackson

"If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life."

"On the king's gate the moss grew gray; The king came not. They call'd him dead; And made his eldest son, one day, Slave in his father's stead."

"If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful."

"I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out."

"The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down."

"There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride."

"But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again, In babyhood."

"There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance and connection, as the greater majority of human beings are in the bosoms of their families"

"Great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead."

"But great loves, to the last, have pulses red; All great loves that have ever died dropped dead."