Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.

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.

the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

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

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.

many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.

Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.

I've learned to judge of men by their own deeds; I do not make the accident of birth The standard of their merit.

Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.

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

self-control, in every station and to every individual, is indispensable, if people would retain that equanimity of mind, which, depending on self-respect, is the essential of contentment and happiness.

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

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

The fearful are the failing.

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.

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

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

What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

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.

Some determined advocates of the vegetable system maintain, that the teeth and stomach of the monkey correspond, in structure, very closely with that of man, yet it lives on fruits - therefore if man followed nature, he would live on fruits and vegetables. But though the anatomical likeness between man and monkeys is striking, yet it is not complete; the difference may be and doubtless is precisely that which makes a difference of diet necessary to nourish and develope their dissimilar natures. Those who should live as the monkeys do would most closely resemble them.

Why is it that water, so monotonous in its characteristics, should nevertheless possess a charm for every mind? I believe it is chiefly because it bears the impress of the Creator, which we feel neither the power of time or of man can efface or alter.

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.