Quotes by Susanna Moodie

• The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
• 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.
• Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.
• 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.