Susanna Moodie

Large parties given to very young children... foster the passions of vanity and envy, and produce a love of dress and display which is very repulsive in the character of a child.

The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

Everybody is always going to have haters. It comes with the job. You have to have a tough skin and not let it affect you.