60 Quotes by Lydia Maria Francis Child

The civilization of any country may always be measured by the degree of equality between men and women; and society will never come truly into order until there is perfect equality and copartnership between them in every department of human life.

Genius hath electric power; Which earth can never tame; Bright suns may scorch and dark clouds lower; Its flash is still the same.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in wanting no more than you have.

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike.

Prejudices of all kinds have their strongest holds in the minds of the vulgar and the ignorant.

You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure on others? Half the battle is gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.

The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.

The boughs of no two trees ever have the same arrangement. Nature always produces individuals; She never produces classes.

It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.