95 Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

Wrecked on the lee shore of age.

My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.

A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

we have these instincts which defy all our wisdom and for which we never can frame any laws. ... They are powers which are imperfectly developed in this life, but one cannot help the thought that the mystery of this world may be the commonplace of the next.

it is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world ...

What's everybody's business is nobody's business ...

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.