“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, suns...” — Lydia M. Child Quote

“Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.”

“Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to carry it thither, as on an angel's wings.”

“But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later.”

“I am quite a cheerful, dark person. On the outside, I'm optimistic but I expect the worst to happen.”

“I have always been - I think any student of history almost inevitably is - a cheerful pessimist.”

“Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.”