Lydia Maria Francis Child Quotes

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.

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;

Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old.

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

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

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

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.

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

Over the river and through the wood
To grandfather's house we go

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

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.

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

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

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