Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
A blessing on the printer's art!-- Books are the mentors of the heart.
Sarah Josepha Hale
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Sarah Josepha Hale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1788
Born: October 24
Died: 1879
Died: April 30
Editor
Editorial Columnist
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Newport
New Hampshire
Sarah Josepha Buell Hale
Sarah Josepha Buell
Sarah J. Hale
Heart
Printer
Mentors
Mentor
Blessing
Books
Art
Book
More quotes by Sarah Josepha Hale
Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.
Sarah Josepha Hale
The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.
Sarah Josepha Hale
There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.
Sarah Josepha Hale
Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!
Sarah Josepha Hale
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 among us.
Sarah Josepha Hale
The fearful are the failing.
Sarah Josepha Hale
The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.
Sarah Josepha Hale
Americans have two ardent passions the love of liberty, and love of distinction.
Sarah Josepha Hale
This is a speculating and selfish age and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.
Sarah Josepha Hale
Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.
Sarah Josepha Hale
And evermore the waters worship God-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!
Sarah Josepha Hale
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.
Sarah Josepha Hale
Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems.
Sarah Josepha Hale
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.
Sarah Josepha Hale
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.
Sarah Josepha Hale
A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.
Sarah Josepha Hale
There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.
Sarah Josepha Hale
What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.
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
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.
Sarah Josepha Hale
