Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

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There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow,
And everywhere that Mary went
The lamb was sure to go.

Sarah Josepha Hale
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.

Sarah Josepha Hale
The whole process of home-making, house-keeping, and cooking, which ever has been woman's special province, should be looked on as an art and a profession.

Sarah Josepha Hale
O, beautiful rainbow; - all woven of light! There's not in thy tissue, one shadow of night; Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear, And, bending above thee, the angels draw near, And sing, - The rainbow! the rainbow! The smile of God is here.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Let no one understand me as speaking lightly of that [Westminster] Catechism. It was framed by good men, and doubtless with the best intentions. But there can be no perfect system of faith as expounded by men; and there should be no creed which requires the human mind to render its unqualified assent before it has examined and reflected.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Next to genius, is the power
Of feeling where true genius lies.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

Sarah Josepha Hale
There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Sarah Josepha Hale
This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.

Sarah Josepha Hale
The burning soul, the burden'd mind,
In books alone companions find.

Sarah Josepha Hale
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.

Sarah Josepha Hale
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.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.

Sarah Josepha Hale
What matter though the scorn of fools be given
If the path follow'd lead us on to heaven!

Sarah Josepha Hale
Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome;
The good, the true, the tender - these form the wealth of home.

Sarah Josepha Hale
The explanations of these [classes and orders] must necessarily be very brief; my aim being rather to stimulate curiosity respecting the subject of Botany than to impart instruction is the science.

Sarah Josepha Hale
And evermore the waters worship God;--
And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres
While listening to the music of the waves!

Sarah Josepha Hale
Rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above
Brightens thy presence like a smile of love,
Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea,
The roughest waves of human destiny
Cheering the good, and to the poor oppress'd
Bearing the promise of their heavenly rest.

Sarah Josepha Hale
In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.

Sarah Josepha Hale
And you each gentle animal
In confidence may bind,
And make them follow at your call,
If you are always kind.

Sarah Josepha Hale
It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

Sarah Josepha Hale
What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!

Sarah Josepha Hale
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Sarah Josepha Hale
There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

Sarah Josepha Hale
Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.

Sarah Josepha Hale