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