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.

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

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.

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!

Mr. and Mrs. R. persuaded themselves that, while they kept the Sabbath day with pharisaical strictness, the other six days were their own. They strove for earth and sighed for heaven, and failed of enjoyment in the pursuit of either.

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

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

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Mary had a little lamb, </br> Its fleece was white as snow, </br> And every where that Mary went </br> The lamb was sure to go.

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

Though youth be past and beauty fled, </br> The constant heart its pledge redeems, </br> Like Box that guards the flowerless bed </br> And brighter from the contrast seems.

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

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.