What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Life is moral responsibility.

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

I read, with a kind of hopeless envy, histories and legends of people of our craft who "do not write for money." It must be a pleasant experience to …

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

A good short story is a work of art which daunts us in proportion to its brevity.... No inspiration is too noble for it; no amountof hard work is too…

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

The woman's personal identity is a vast undiscovered country -- with which Society has yet to acquaint itself, and by which it is yet to be revolutio…

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to m…

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.

- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward