Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not always be saying something in this noisy world.

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.