Companions Quotes by Sarah Josepha Hale

The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!

— Sarah Josepha Hale

A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Democracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

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

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Hail, Holy Day! the blessing from above Brightens thy presence like a smile of love, Smoothing, like oil upon a stormy sea, The roughest…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

— Sarah Josepha Hale

There are few sensations more painful, than, in the midst of deep grief, to know that the season which we have always associated with…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

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

— Sarah Josepha Hale

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…

— Sarah Josepha Hale

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

— Sarah Josepha Hale

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

— Sarah Josepha Hale