Helen Hunt Jackson Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“O month when they who love must love and wed.”

“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.”

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

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

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