If an apple blossom or a ripe apple could tell its own story, it would be, still more than its own, the story of the sunshine that smiled upon it, of…

- Lucy Larcom

Every true friend is a glimpse of God.

- Lucy Larcom

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.

- Lucy Larcom

The religion of our fathers overhung us children like the shadow of a mighty tree against the trunk of which we rested, while we looked up in wonder …

- Lucy Larcom

The curse of covetousness is that it destroys manhood by substituting money for character.

- Lucy Larcom

Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard thing…

- Lucy Larcom

He who plants a tree, plants a hope.

- Lucy Larcom

There is something in the place where we were born that holds us always by the heart-strings.

- Lucy Larcom

What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tatt…

- Lucy Larcom