Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes
It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.
Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.
There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.
... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.
The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.
There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.
And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.
Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.
Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.
This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.
There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.
Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.
many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.
And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!
Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.
Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems.
It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.
I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.
What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!
What matter though the scorn of fools be given If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!
Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.
There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with mirth and rejoicing is at hand.
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.
Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother's mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.
Nor need we power or splendor wide hall or lordly dome the good the true the tender-these form the wealth of home.