Sarah Orne Jewett

“Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.”

“When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.”

“The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.”

“Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.”

“A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing.... It takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.”

“T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.”