43 Quotes by Fanny Fern

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues...

Show me an ‘easy person,’ and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his ‘easiness’ are generally shouldered by other people.

It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

When a literary person’s exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

Fitz Allen had ‘traveled;’ and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.