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… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
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… — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them. — Sarah Josepha Hale Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
