Susanna Moodie Inspirational Quotes (8)

The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a good political article from their newspapers.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.

Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.

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.

I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.

The Indian is one of Nature's gentlemen--he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.