Quotes from Lydia Sigourney

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

There must be some mixture of happiness in everything but sin.

The true order of learning should be first, what is necessary; second, what is useful, and third, what is ornamental. To reverse this arrangement is like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

As nothing truly valuable can be attained without industry, so there can be no persevering industry without a deep sense of the value of time.

The soul of woman lives in love.

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.