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…

— 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…

— Lydia M. Child

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

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Lydia M. Child

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for…

— Lydia M. Child

That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters not much; but that he should make himself…

— Lydia M. Child

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

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

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

— Lydia M. Child

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our…

— Lydia M. Child

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after…

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Lydia M. Child

The laws of our being are such that we must perform some degree of use in the world, whether we intend it,…

— Lydia M. Child

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible…

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Lydia M. Child