Susanna Moodie
Susanna Moodie
Susanna Moodiewas an English-born Canadian author who wrote about her experiences as a settler in Canada, which was a British colony at the time...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth6 December 1803
barrier classes education exists men moral
The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men.
country native-american men
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.
memories evil faithful
What a wonderful faculty is memory! -- the most mysterious and inexplicable in the great riddle of life; that plastic tablet on which the Almighty registers with unerring fidelity the records of being, making it the depository of all our words, thoughts and deeds -- this faithful witness against us for good or evil.
home chickens curse
Curses, like chickens, come home to roost.
children party character
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.
husband lying mistress
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.
liars lying pride
Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
eye people political
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.
encouraging dark clouds
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.
lie second wish
I have no wish for a second husband. l had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.