Sarah Josepha Buell Hale was an American writer. She is well known as the author of the popular nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
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“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 J. Hale
“I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me.”
“She was a weak woman - too highly elated in prosperity, too easily depressed by adversity - not considering that both are situations of trial”
“Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these form the wealth of home.”