Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

— Lydia Maria Francis Child

Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.

— Lydia Maria Francis Child

If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at once become prudent and useful, when the cares of life press heavily upon them.

— Lydia Maria Francis Child

We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

— Lydia Maria Francis Child