The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.
Edith WhartonThe real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key, so that their joint glances on any subject cross like interarching searchlights.
Edith WhartonAnd all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.
Edith WhartonLife is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton