82 Quotes by Lucy Larcom

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

If the world's a veil of tears, Smile till rainbows span it.

Whether rich or poor, a home is not a home unless the roots of love are ever striking deeper through the crust of the earthly and the conventional, into the very realities of being, not consciously always; seldom, perhaps; the simplicity of loving grows by living simply near nature and God.

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent, in rounding to her full. The woman is still both child and girl, in the completeness of womanly character.

I am willing to make any part of my life public, if it will help others.

A friend is a beloved mystery; dearest always because he is not ourself, and has something in him which it is impossible for us to fathom. If it were not so, friendship would lose its chief zest.

Rich or poor, every child comes into the world with some imperative need of its own, which shapes its individuality.