Quotes by : William Dean Howells

Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if....

She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping;....

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.

How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always!....

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community....

Yes, there's sense in that. But the suddenly rich are on a level with any of us nowadays. Money buys....

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate....

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a....