The American Frugal Housewife

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

— Lydia Maria 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 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 Child

“The good old home habits of our ancestors are breaking up”

— Lydia Maria Child

“Young ladies should be taught that usefulness is happiness, and that all other things are but incidental.””

— Lydia Maria Child

“In early childhood, you lay the foundation of poverty or riches, in the habits you give your children. Teach them to save everything,”

— Lydia Maria Child

“We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence!””

— Lydia Maria Child

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

— Lydia Maria Child

“Beer is a good family drink.””

— Lydia Maria Child