Susanna Moodie

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

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.

When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

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.

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.