Quotes by Jewett, Sarah Orne

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows wh >>

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last ge >>

Wrecked on the lee shore of age. >>

Quotations about History and Historians

To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is >>

While we read history we make history. >>

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows wh >>

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.

Jewett, Sarah Orne