Those who cannot think, have, in my opinion, a necessity (which goes very far towards creating a right) for amusement.
Sarah Josepha HaleAmong 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 HaleReaders soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.
Sarah Josepha HaleDo 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 HaleThere is no influence so powerful as that of the mother, but next in rank in efficacy is that of the schoolmaster.
Sarah Josepha HaleDemocracies have been, and governments called, free; but the spirit of independence and the consciousness of unalienable rights, were never before transfused into the minds of a whole people....The feeling of equality which they proudly cherish does not proceed from an ignorance of their station, but from the knowledge of their rights; and it is this knowledge which will render it so exceedingly difficult for any tyrant ever to triumph over the liberties of our country.
Sarah Josepha Hale