William Dean Howells - The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885)

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

William Dean Howells

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them are ruinous!

William Dean Howells

All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

William Dean Howells

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.

William Dean Howells

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

William Dean Howells

I do not know how it is that clergymen and physicians keep from telling their wives the secrets confided to them; perhaps they can trust their wives to find them out for themselves whenever they wish.

William Dean Howells