Lydia M. Child Quotes

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.

Be spontaneous, be truthful, be free, and thus be individuals!

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

I think we have reason to thank God for Abraham Lincoln.

The United States is ... a warning rather than an example to the world.

Birds and beasts have in fact our own nature, flattened a semi-tone.

A great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.

I will work in my own way, according to the light that is in me.

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

[U]sefulness is happiness, and ... all other things are but incidental.

The excess of all good things is mischievous.

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

Affectation is fond of making a greater show than reality ... Nature and truth have never learned to blow the trumpet, and never will.

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

We must not forget that all great revolutions and reformations would look mean and meagre if examined in detail as they occurred at the time.

Ignoring the fact it is 99% NSFW and full of furry pics.. It is very rare that a site scales perfectly and I like the way it presents the pictures.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.

Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.

Ah, my friend, that is the only true church organization, when heads and hearts unite in working for the welfare of the human race!

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

I keep working because I am quite sure that no particle of goodness or truth is ever really lost, however appearances may be to the contrary.