51 Quotes by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession.

Originality is simply a pair of fresh eyes.

Great men are rarely isolated mountain peaks; they are the summits of ranges.

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

There is a noble and a base side to every history.

All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the rest.