Quotes by : Sarah Orne Jewett

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth....

There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged....

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not....

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of....

A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and has....

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

The road was new to me as roads always are going back.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless....

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back....

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should....