Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes
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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.
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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.
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A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.
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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.
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There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.
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A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.
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There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.
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And you each gentle animal In confidence may bind, And make them follow at your call, If you are always kind.
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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.
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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.
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Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature - art has quite a different price.
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What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!
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Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!
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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.
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This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.
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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.
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Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.
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... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.
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No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.
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many tender, delicate mothers, seem to think that to make their children eat, is all that is requisite to make them great.
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Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.
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What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
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There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
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Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.
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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.
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Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.
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The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.
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Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.
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Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
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It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.
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