Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
William Dean HowellsIn Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
William Dean HowellsI know, indeed, of nothing more subtly 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 fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.
William Dean Howells