I'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

The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

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 …

- Sarah Orne Jewett

This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripen…

- Sarah Orne Jewett

A story should be managed so that it should suggest interesting things to the reader instead of the author's doing all the thinking for him, and sett…

- Sarah Orne Jewett

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

- Sarah Orne Jewett

It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.

- Sarah Orne Jewett