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Lydia M. Child Quotes

«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 gained if you never allow yourself to say anything gloomy.»
«Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.»
Author: Lydia M. Child | Keywords: sunshiny
«None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.»
«The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos.»
«Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs.»
«It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.»
«I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.»
«An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.»
«But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.»
Author: Lydia M. Child | Keywords: violate
«A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.»
Author: Lydia M. Child | Keywords: cheerfully

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