Lydia M. Child Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“It is right noble to fight with wickedness and wrong; the mistake is in supposing that spiritual evil can be overcome by physical means.”

“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.”

“A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”