Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes about Water

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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.

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.

Sarah Josepha Hale

Epic, Water, Soul

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195

It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.

Sarah Josepha Hale

Oil, Water, Evil

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

Ocean, Water, Listening

Sarah Josepha Hale (1850). “Dictionary of poetical quotations”, p.388

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.

Sarah Josepha Hale

Believe, Men, Water

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.195

Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes about Water

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