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Edith Wharton - From the Aging category:
Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Boredom category:
Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Critics category:
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Friendship category:
There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Habit category:
Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Happiness category:
If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Ideas category:
The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Imagination category:
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Life category:
Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Light category:
There are two ways of spreading light... To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Modernism category:
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Money category:
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Originality category:
True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Pets category:
My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Responsibility category:
The worst of doing one's duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Silence category:
Silence may be as variously shaded as speech. (Edith Wharton)
Edith Wharton - From the Subject category:
In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears. (Edith Wharton)
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