60 Quotes by Lydia Maria Francis Child

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

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word – father.

A mind full of piety and knowledge is always rich; it is a bank that never fails; it yields a perpetual dividend of happiness. In.

Law is not law, if it violates the principles of eternal justice.

Young ladies should be taught that usefulness is happiness, and that all other things are but incidental.

The good old home habits of our ancestors are breaking up – it will be well if our virtue and our freedom do not follow them!

Home – that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel’s wings.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.