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

- Lydia Sigourney

Habits, though in their commencement like the filmy line of the spider, trembling at every breeze, may in the end prove as links of tempered steel, b…

- Lydia Sigourney

Not on the outer world For inward joy depend; Enjoy the luxury of thought, Make thine own self friend; Not with the restless throng, In search of sol…

- Lydia Sigourney

The vanity of shining in conversation is usually subversive of its own desires.

- Lydia Sigourney

Prosperity, alas! is often but another name for pride.

- Lydia Sigourney

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 …

- Lydia Sigourney

The soul of woman lives in love.

- Lydia Sigourney

Ye say they all have passed away, That noble race and brave; That their light canoes have vanished From off the crested wave; That mid the forests wh…

- Lydia Sigourney

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.

- Lydia Sigourney