Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes


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



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. - Sarah Orne Jewett



What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. - Sarah Orne Jewett



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. - Sarah Orne Jewett