It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--let such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.
Sarah Josepha HaleThere is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
Sarah Josepha HaleThere is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.
Sarah Josepha HaleWhat a ready passport wealth gives its possessor to the good opinions of this world!
Sarah Josepha Hale