All Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes
- 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 she… Cat
- My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as… Along
- Wrecked on the lee shore of age. Age
- So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end. Aging
- The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or… Belongs
- Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be… Always Used
- You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to. Bein
- This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy,… Air
- You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. Center
- Tact is after all a kind of mind reading. All
- It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better. Better
- It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute,… Any
- In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness. Each
- Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes. All
- It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to… Elevating
- God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women. Give
- A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the… Adventurer
- The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair. Affair
- It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem… Acquaintance
- Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Always Best
- In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret… Age
- The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true… Affair
- To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit… Any
- The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back. Going Back
- What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. Great