Sarah Orne Jewett World Quotations

Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

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

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 it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return.

It is not often given in a noisy world to come to the places of great grief and silence.

we 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.

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 ...

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