Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes

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.

All that I intended was, that 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 you each gentle animal </br> In confidence may bind, </br> And make them follow at your call, </br> If you are always kind.

Oh! wondrous power, how little understood, </br> Entrusted to the Mother's mind alone </br> To fashion genius, form the soul for good, </br> Inspire a West, or train a Washington!

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.'

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes, but its households.

Riches are always overestimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

A few hundred dollars will dry the weeping eyes of the most despairing damsel, and make her think the defection of her plighted swain a very lucky speculation—and so instead of breaking her own heart, she very coolly determines to break his credit, comforting herself with the thought that cash is more current than love.

The violet bank, the moss-fringed seat </br> Beneath the drooping tree.

Woman's empire, holier, more refined, </br> Moulds, moves and sways the fall'n but God-breathed mind, </br> Lifting the earth-crushed heart to hope and heaven.

What matter though the scorn of fools be given, </br> If the path followed lead us on to heaven!

You may indulge any childish propensity with less injury to the intellect than that of gluttony. Eating to excess constantly will deaden or destroy the energies of the mind, while those of the animal are increased, till the immortal becomes perfectly swinish—and yet many tender, delicate mothers seem to think, that to make their children eat is all that is requisite to make them great.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty— </br> These were one in nature's plan; </br> Humble toil and heavenward duty— </br> These will form the perfect man!

To speak without metaphor—the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind every thing is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.