28 Quotes by 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.

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

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

O, beautiful rainbow; – all woven of light! There’s not in thy tissue, one shadow of night; Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear, And, bending above thee, the angels draw near, And sing, – The rainbow! the rainbow! The smile of God is here.

This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think ‘money will answer all things,’ is too much the characteristic of Americans.

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