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Top 25 Sarah Josepha Hale Quotes (2025 Update)

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.”

1. “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

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.”

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

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.”

3. “The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.”

4. “No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.”

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

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “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.”

6. “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

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “The fearful are the failing.”

8. “The fearful are the failing.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “This is a speculating and selfish age; and to think ‘money will answer all things,’ is too much the characteristic of Americans.”

9. “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

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “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.”

10. “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

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “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 to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.”

11. “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 to females the advantages of a systematic and thorough education.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature – art has quite a different price.”

12. “Happiness is, in truth, a very cheap thing, when the heart will be contented to traffic with nature – art has quite a different price.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.”

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

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “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 rejoicing is at hand.”

14. “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 rejoicing is at hand.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.”

15. “There is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.”

16. “There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender – these form the wealth of home.”

17. “Nor need we power or splendor, wide hall or lordly dome; The good, the true, the tender – these form the wealth of home.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.”

18. “A man is never more satisfied than when he is confirming a favorite theory.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “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.”

19. “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

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.”

20. “Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.”

21. “There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.”

22. “Do not, as you value the health and happiness of those who sit at your table, place before them hot leavened bread or biscuit.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!”

23. “What a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.”

24. “Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother’s mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.”

25. “Oh, wondrous power! how little understood, Entrusted to the mother’s mind alone, To fashion genius, form the soul for good, Inspire a West, or train a Washington.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.”

26. “Americans have two ardent passions; the love of liberty, and love of distinction.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “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.”

27. “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

Sarah Josepha Hale Quote: “What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.”

28. “What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.”

— Sarah Josepha Hale

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