95 Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

We go so far in our vigorous observance of the first commandment, and our fear of worshiping strange gods, that sometimes we are in danger of forgetting that we must worship God himself. And worship is something different from a certain sort of constant church-going, or from even trying to be conformers and to keep our own laws and our neighbors’.

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

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

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.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!