The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of ov…

- Susanna Moodie

What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty re…

- Susanna Moodie

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political ar…

- Susanna Moodie

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

- Susanna Moodie

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that ar…

- Susanna Moodie

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

- Susanna Moodie

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

- Susanna Moodie

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

- Susanna Moodie

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive…

- Susanna Moodie