Quotes by Hannah Webster Foster

"The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body may as well accompany it,"
Hannah Webster Foster
"He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure."
Hannah Webster Foster
"Can you, who have always been used to serenity and order in a family, to rational, refined, and improving conversation, relinquish them, and launch into the whirlpool of frivolity, where the correct taste and the delicate sensibility which you possess must constantly be wounded"
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Hannah Webster Foster (September 10, 1758/59 – April 17, 1840) was an American novelist. Her epistolary novel, The Coquette; or, The History of Eliza Wharton, was published anonymously in 1797. Althou...