Quote of the Day (Lydia Maria Child, on the Harvest of the Truth)

“No particle of scattered truth is ever wasted. The harvest will come in time.”—Poet Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880), in an 1860 letter to fellow abolitionist John Underwood, in “The Last Appeal: Lydia Maria Child's Antislavery Letters to John C. Underwood,” edited by Nancy Slocum Hornick, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, January 1971