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

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

- Sarah Josepha Hale

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

- Sarah Josepha Hale

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

- 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 mirth and rejoi…

- Sarah Josepha Hale

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

- Sarah Josepha Hale

In this age of innovation perhaps no experiment will have an influence more important on the character and happiness of our society than the granting…

- 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

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

- Sarah Josepha Hale