Lydia Maria ChildThinkers

Beauty is given to remind us that the soul should be kept as fair and perfect in its proportions as the temple in which it dwells.

The Flower is the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of their character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

The Heart can never grow old if it takes a lively interest in the pairing of birds, the reproduction of flowers, and the changing tints of autumn leaves.

Home is a blessed word which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of heaven, and helps to carry it there.

Usefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental.