Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.
– Sarah Orne Jewett
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
– 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
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
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
'Taint't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
– Sarah Orne Jewett
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.
– Sarah Orne Jewett