Making a difference Quotes by Lydia M. Child

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us…

— Lydia M. Child

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

— Lydia M. Child

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as…

— Lydia M. Child

our republican ideas cannot be consistently carried out while women are excluded from any share in the government. ... Any class of human beings…

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Lydia M. Child

I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak…

— Lydia M. Child

To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy…

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Lydia M. Child

In the first place, the government ought not to be invested with power to control the affections, any more than the consciences of citizens.…

— Lydia M. Child

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the…

— Lydia M. Child