Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. -Edith Wharton Wisdom
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. -Edith Wharton Inspirational
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. -Edith Wharton Imagination