More quotes by Edith Wharton

"If only we'd stop trying to be happy, we could have a pretty good time."
"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."
"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul."
"Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before."
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that receives it."