William Dean Howells quotes

" An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. " # Action

" A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it. " # Mothers

" He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. " # Noise # Silence # Death and Dying

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

" I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle 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 a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward. " # Praise # Happiness # Money

" Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. " # Prejudice # Liberty # America

" The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. " # Books - Reading

" What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. " # Tragedies # Happiness # America

" It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. " # Voice # Life and Living # Age and Aging

" We live, but a world has passed away With the years that perished to make us men. " # Life and Living