Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

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.

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

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.

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