Sarah Orne Jewett

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

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

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

The warm sun kissed the earthTo consecrate thy birth,And from his close embraceThy radiant faceSprang into sight,A blossoming delight.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

There's some herb that's good for everybody, except for them that thinks they're sick when they ain't.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

There is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Who was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

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

— Sarah Orne Jewett

“be brisk, be splendid, and be public.”

— Sarah Orne Jewett

To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

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

Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don't feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

— Sarah Orne Jewett