Lydia Sigourney Quotes

Mothers, whatever you wish your children to become, strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.

We speak of educating our children. Do we know that our children also educate us?

The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people.

Fear is the white lipp'd sire Of subterfuge and treachery.

Pride is a fruitful source of uneasiness. It keeps the mind in disquiet. Humility is the antidote to this evil.

The glorified spirit of the infant is as a star to guide the mother to its own blissful clime.

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

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 like beginning to build at the top of the edifice.

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.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

Something will be gathered from the tablets of the most faultless day for regrets.

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.

Praise to our Father-God, High praise in solemn lay, Alike for what His hand hath given, And what it takes away.

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

An appearance of delicacy is inseparable from sweetness and gentleness of character.

The soul of woman lives in love.

A disposition to dwell on the bright side...is like gold to its possessor.

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

Vigorous exercise will often fortify a feeble constitution.

The strength of a nation especially of a republican nation is in the intelligent and well-ordered homes of the people.