Skip to content
Shawords

Quote#God & Faith

I gave my son a palace

Quote byJulia Ward Howe · 1819–1910

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Quoted in Laura E. Richards, When I Was Your Age (Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1894) ch. 7, p. 159; also in Howe's At Sunset (1910) p. 139.

English (original)

I gave my son a palace And a kingdom to control,— The palace of his body, The kingdom of his soul.

— Julia Ward Howe

More from Julia Ward Howe