Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

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. Conversations got to have some root in the past, or else youve got to explain every remark you make, an it wears a person out.

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

Yesm old friends is always best less you can catch a new one thats fit to make an old one out of.

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

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.

Taint worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Yesm, old friends is always best, less you can catch a new one thats fit to make an old one out of.