Lydia Maria Francis Child Quotes & Sayings

Those who make candles will find it a great improvement to steep the wicks in lime-water and saltpetre, and dry them. The flame is clearer, and the tallow will not 'run. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

In early childhood, you lay the foundation of poverty or riches, in the habits you give your children. Teach them to save everything, - not for their own use, for that would make them selfish - but for some use. Teach them to share everything with their playmates; but never allow them to destroy anything. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

One great cause of the vanity, extravagance and idleness that are so fast growing upon our young ladies, is the absence of domestic education. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Steam-baths are excellent for severe colds, and for some disorders in the bowels. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

GENERAL MAXIMS FOR HEALTH. Rise early. Eat simple food. Take plenty of exercise. Never fear a little fatigue. Let not children be dressed in tight clothes; it is necessary their limbs and muscles should have full play, if you wish for either health or beauty. Avoid the necessity of a physician, if you can, by careful attention to your diet. Eat what best agrees with your system, and resolutely abstain from what hurts you, however well you may like it. A few days' abstinence, and cold water for a beverage, has driven off many an approaching disease. If you find yourself really ill, send for a good physician. Have nothing to do with quacks; — Lydia Maria Francis Child

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The fact is, our girls have no home education. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Flour boiled thoroughly in milk, so as to make quite a thick porridge, is good in cases of dysentery. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence! — Lydia Maria Francis Child

A mind full of piety and knowledge is always rich; it is a bank that never fails; it yields a perpetual dividend of happiness. In — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Plantain leaves laid upon a wound are cooling and healing. Half — 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

In this country, we are apt to let children romp away their existence, till they get to be thirteen or fourteen. This is not well. It is not well for the purses and patience of parents; and it has a still worse effect on the morals and habits of the children. Begin early is the great maxim for everything in education. A child of six years old can be made useful; and should be taught to consider every day lost in which some little thing has not been done to assist others. — 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

The good old home habits of our ancestors are breaking up - it will be well if our virtue and our freedom do not follow them! — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Beer is a good family drink. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father. — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Few, in the days of early youth,
Trusted like me in love and truth.
I've learned sad lessons from the years;
But slowly and with many tears;
For God made me to kindly view
The world that I was passing through.
And all who tempt a trusting heart
From faith and hope to drift apart,
May they themselves be spared the pain
Of losing power to trust again!
God help us all to kindly view
The world that we are passing through! — Lydia Maria Francis Child

An effort made for the happiness of other lifts us above. — 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

Over the river and through the wood
To grandfather's house we go — Lydia Maria Francis Child

Nations do not plunge at once into ruin - governments do not change suddenly - the causes which bring about the final blow, are scarcely perceptible in the beginning; but they increase in numbers, and in power; they press harder and harder upon the energies and virtue of a people; and the last steps only are alarmingly hurried and irregular. A republic without industry, economy, and integrity, is Samson shorn of his locks. A luxurious and idle republic! Look at the phrase! - The words were never made to be married together; every body sees it would be death to one of them. — Lydia Maria Francis Child