Catharine Sedgwick Professions : Novelist Born : December 28, 1789 Died : July 31, 1867 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by Catharine Sedgwick Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy. Catharine Sedgwick patents democracy heaven A company attitude is rarely anybody's best. Catharine Sedgwick company manners attitude Caution is the instinct of the weaker animal. Catharine Sedgwick instinct weakness animal I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to - no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! Catharine Sedgwick eden writing children Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors