William Dean Howells

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#deafening #doom #small #small voice #soul

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

#her #him #his #know #late

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#action #best #greatest #greatest happiness #greatest number

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#because #book #commonly #does #duty

The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#inanimate #me #mortality #most #terrible

There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#presently #room #things #up #will

Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#affair #any #been #care #consulted

We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#creatures #fills #interest #little #live

What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#american public #ending #happy #happy ending #public

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#both #goodness #heart #hold #must