The visible world is a daily miracle, for those who have eyes and ears.

- Edith Wharton

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

- Edith Wharton

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

- Edith Wharton

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.

- Edith Wharton

But I have sometimes thought that a woman's nature is like a great house full of rooms: there is the hall, through which everyone passes in going in …

- Edith Wharton

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

- Edith Wharton

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

- Edith Wharton

Some things are best mended by a break.

- Edith Wharton

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one’s center of life inside of one’s self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassail…

- Edith Wharton