Meandering about . . .

Today is the birthday of Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909), author and poet.

"Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees!"
- Sarah Orne Jewett

"It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses."
- Sarah Orne Jewett

"It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out."
- 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 it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return."
- Sarah Orne Jewett

"The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back."
- Sarah Orne Jewett

"Tact is after all a kind of mind reading."
- Sarah Orne Jewett

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