I think sometimes that it is almost a pity to enjoy Italy as much as I do, because the acuteness of my sensations makes them rather exhausting; but when I see the stupid Italians I have met here, completely insensitive to their surroundings, and ignorant of the treasures of art and history among which they have grown up, I begin to think it is better to be an American, and bring to it all a mind and eye unblunted by custom.
Edith WhartonMake ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.
Edith WhartonAh, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!
Edith WhartonIn the dissolution of sentimental partnerships it is seldom that both associates are able to withdraw their funds at the same time.
Edith Wharton