There is all the pleasure that one can have in golddigging in finding one’s hopes satisfied in the riches of a good hill of potatoes. - 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.

I often wondered a great deal about the inner life and thought of these self-contained old fishermen; their minds seemed to be fixed upon nature and the elements rather than upon any contrivances of man, like politics or theology.

So we always keep the same hearts, though our outer framework fails and shows the touch of time.