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.
Sarah Orne JewettThe process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
Sarah Orne JewettDo not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.
Sarah Orne JewettI've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.
Sarah Orne JewettIn the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.
Sarah Orne Jewett