You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
There was a patient look on the old man's face, as if the world were a great mistake and he had nobody… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
It is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
“This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed. — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things… — Sarah Orne Jewett Copy Share Image
