Quotes from Frances Harper

Every mother should endeavor to be a true artist.

My hands were weak, but I reached them out To feebler ones than mine, and over the shadow of my life Stole the light of a peace divine.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

If we have had no past, it is well for us to look hopefully to the future - for the shadows bear the promise of a brighter coming day.

The respect that is only bought by gold is not worth much.

True politeness is to social life what oil is to machinery, a thing to oil the ruts and grooves of existence. False politeness can shine without warming and glitter without vivifying.

Apparent failure may hold in its rough shell the germs of a success that will blossom in time, and bear fruit throughout eternity.

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

Intense love is often akin to intense suffering.

No man can feel the iron which enters another man's soul.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.