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Hannah Webster Foster Quotes

It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

It is by surmounting difficulties, not by sinking under them that we discover our fortitude.

Hannah Webster Foster
Fortitude, Sinking, Difficulty
Hannah Webster Foster (2015). “The Coquette: or, The History of Eliza Wharton”, p.93, Courier Dover Publications

An unusual sensation possesses my breast - a sensation which I once thought could never pervade it on any occasion whatever. It is pleasure, pleasure, my dear Lucy, on leaving my paternal roof.

Hannah Webster Foster
Women, Home, Leaving
William Wells Brown, Hannah Webster Foster (1996). “The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette”, p.107, Penguin

Marriage is the tomb of friendship.

Hannah Webster Foster
Tombs
Hannah Webster Foster (1828). “The Coquette, Or, The Life and Letters of Eliza Wharton: A Novel”, p.34

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