A wise nation preserves its records, gathers up its muniments, decorates the tombes of its illustrious dead, repairs its greatest structures and fost…

- Joseph Howe

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

- Joseph Howe

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

- Joseph Howe

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…

- Joseph Howe

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 q…

- Joseph Howe