O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share Image
Whatever you would have your children become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
Teachers should be held in the highest honor. They are the allies of legislators; they have agency in the prevention of crime; they aid… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye. — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor... — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
As a dedicated, successful writer, Lydia Sigourney violated essential elements of the very gender roles she celebrated. In the process, she offered young, aspiring… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
Youth would be too happy, might it add to its own beauty and felicity the wisdom and experience of riper years. Were it possible… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you… — Lydia Sigourney Copy Share
