It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were brethren of the same family, sharing the same ri…

- Lydia M. Child

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

- Lydia M. Child

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

- Lydia M. Child

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

- Lydia M. Child

a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

- Lydia M. Child

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 g…

- Lydia M. Child

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

- Lydia M. Child

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

- Lydia M. Child

The old men gazed on them in their loveliness, and turned away with that deep and painful sigh, which the gladness of childhood, and thetransient bea…

- Lydia M. Child