12 Quotes by William Howells

They are rather helplessly frank, but not, I hope, with all their rather helpless frankness, offensively frank.

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

I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.