60 Quotes by Lydia Maria Francis Child

So easy it is to see the errors of past ages, so difficult to acknowledge our own!

Philosophy and the arts are but a manifestation of the intelligible ideas that move the public mind; and thus they become visible images of the nations whence they emanate.

There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theatre, sufficient for the amusement of an hour. But now, I have lost the power of looking merely on the surface.

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

The rarest attainment is to grow old happily and gracefully.

Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny.