Joseph Howe Quotes

• My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

  Joseph Howe

  Believe, Solitude, Life Is

  Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.69

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• Una nación sabia preserva sus registros, recoge sus munimentos, decora las tumbas de sus muertos ilustres, repara sus estructuras más grandes y fomenta el orgullo nacional y el amor a la patria, mediante referencias perpetuas a los sacrificios y glorias del pasado.

  Joseph Howe

  Wise, Country, Pride

  1871 Address at Framingham, Massachusetts, 31 Aug. Collected in Poems and Essays (1874).

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• Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

  Joseph Howe

  Politics, Married, Maidens

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• We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.

  Joseph Howe

  Smile, Illustration, May

  Joseph Howe (1858). “Speeches and Public Letters”, p.39

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• My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

  Joseph Howe

  Libro, Biblioteca, Mundo

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