Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

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

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of these new folks nowadays, that seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

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

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