William Dean Howells Quotes

Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising i...

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great communi...

Yes, there's sense in that. But the suddenly rich are on a level with any of us nowadays. Money buys...

Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a...

She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth k...

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inani...

How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always...

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

The conqueror is regarded with awe the wise man commands our respect but it is only the benevolent m...