Edith Wharton
  • If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

  • There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

  • There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  • The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  • If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.