Edith Newbold Jones Wharton

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

"Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. "

"Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. "

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