If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations.… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
Neither lemonade nor anything else can prevent the inroads of old age. At present, I am stoical under its advances, and hope… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
It is wonderful how shy even liberal ministers generally are about trusting people with the plain truth concerning their religion. They want… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others?… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes. — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
