“If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at once become prudent and useful, when the cares of life press heavily upon them.” — Lydia Maria Francis Child Copy Share Image
“We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence!” — Lydia Maria Francis Child Copy Share Image
“Nations do not plunge at once into ruin - governments do not change suddenly - the causes which bring about the final blow, are scarcely perceptible in the beginning; but they increase in numbers, and in power; they press harder and harder upon the energies and virtue of a people; and the last steps only are alarmingly hurried and irregular.… — Lydia Maria Francis Child Copy Share
“Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.” — Lydia Maria Francis Child Copy Share Image
“If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at… — Lydia Maria Francis Child Copy Share Image
“Over the river and through the wood To grandfather's house we go” — Lydia Maria Francis Child Copy Share Image
“Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old.” — Lydia Maria Francis Child Copy Share Image
