A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Lydia M. Child

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.

— Lydia M. Child

Every human being has like Socrates an attendant spirit and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do it always cautions us what not to do.

— Lydia M. Child

Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.

— Lydia M. Child

No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.

— Lydia M. Child

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.

— Lydia M. Child

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fans quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.

— Lydia M. Child

The cure for all ills and wrongs the cares the sorrows and the crimes of humanity all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

— Lydia M. Child