Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. — 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
