More From Edith Wharton
- "Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue."
- "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
- "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."
More In Good
- "Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."― Benjamin Franklin
- "No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."― Mary Wollstonecraft
- "As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution."― Henry David Thoreau