95 Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain room, like a gay little child who might suddenly appear in a doorway.

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.

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.

be brisk, be splendid, and be public.

It is in human nature to respect power; but all hismanliness was at stake, and his natural rights would be degraded and lost, if he could not show his power to be greater than her own.

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

Being furnished not only with a subject of conversation, but with a safe refuge in the kitchen in case of incompatibility, Mrs. Fosdick and I sat down, prepared to make the best of each other.

There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.

If clergymen knew their congregations as well as physicians do, the sermons would be often more closely related to the parish needs.