Sarah Orne Jewett

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

“It is the thorn that guards the rose, too, you know.”

“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.”

“The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.”

“God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.”

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

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

“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing.”

“It's the old who are sane. It is the old who cry very little. They are looking over the tops of things.”

“It does seem as if it was the business of all living things to be happy.”

“We must be patient with each other, for there is a law of the relations of souls to one another.”

“Some days are for living in. Others are for getting through.”