Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

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.

The road was new to me as roads always are going back.

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

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 couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back in a day.

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

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.