Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, I find it difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

About Lucy Larcom

Lucy Larcom (March 5, 1824 – April 17, 1893) was an American teacher, poet, and author. She was one of the first teachers at Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College) in Norton, Massachusetts, teaching there from 1854 to 1862. During that time, she co-founded Rushlight Literary Magazine, a submission-based student...