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.
Sarah Orne Jewettwe 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.
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 found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.
Sarah Orne Jewett