There, don't you think I'm always a-fault-finding! When I get hold of the real thing in folks, I stick to 'em, — but there's an awful sight of poor m… - Sarah Orne Jewett

Man has done his best to ruin the world he lives in.

This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with.

Do you know that I have understood something lately better than I ever did before — it is that success and happiness are not things of chance with us, but of choice. I can see how we might so easily have had a dull summer here. Of course it is our own fault if the events of our lives are hindrances; it is we who make them bad or good. Sometimes it is a conscious choice, but oftener unconscious. I suppose we educate ourselves for taking the best of life or the worst, do Snot you?