67 Quotes by William Dean Howells

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

If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.

How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

Primitive societies without religion have never been found.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.