Quotes from Lydia M. Child

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

That a majority of women do not wish for any important change in their social and civil condition, merely proves that they are the unreflecting slaves of custom.

Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap on the ballot box.

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

Not in vain is Ireland pouring itself all over the earth. The Irish, with their glowing hearts and reverent credulity, are needed in this cold age of intellect and skepticism.

Work! work! that is my unfailing cure for all troubles.

It is impossible to exaggerate the evil work theology has done in the world.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Every human being has... an attendant spirit.... If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.