Lucy Larcom

“Home-life, when one always stays at home, is necessarily narrowing. That is one reason why so many women are petty and unthoughtful of any except their own family's interests. We have hardly begun to live until we can take in the idea of the whole human family as the one to which we truly belong.”

“He who plants a tree, plants a hope.”

“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.”

“... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be easy, or with the wish to have it so.”