Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

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 friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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

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 happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

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 be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

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 or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service,ﾂ葉his is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.