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 WhartonMake ones center of life inside ones self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity.
Edith WhartonI despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
Edith WhartonA frivolous society can acquire dramatic significance only through what its frivolity destroys.
Edith Wharton