67 Quotes by William Dean Howells

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

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.

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