She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.
Edith WhartonIt is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.
Edith WhartonShe wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.
Edith Wharton