Sarah Hedit

Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

The city is recruited from the country.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

How many are the things I can do without!

Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore there be any kindness I can show…let me do it now.- William Penn

Great people are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

Some men do as much begrudge others a good name, as they want one themselves: and perhaps that is the reason of it.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial “we.”

Part of her mystery is how she is calm in the storm and anxious in the quiet.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep.