95 Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

Tain’t worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Write it as it is, don’t try to make it like this or that. You can’t do it in anybody else’s way-you will have to make a way of your own.

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.

What’s everybody’s business is nobody’s business...

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

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.

My childhood is very vivid to me, and I don’t feel very different now from the way I felt then. It would appear I am the very same person, only with wrinkles.

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn’t for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

There’s some herb that’s good for everybody, except for them that thinks they’re sick when they ain’t.