Edith Wharton did have one potentially redeeming disadvantage: she wasn’t pretty.

"Don't treat people like trash. Once you lose them it's hard to find them again."

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above; this is the right time for marriage.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

Preserve the mean; the opportune moment is best in all things.

It is from work that men are rich in flocks and wealthy, and a working man is much dearer to the immortals

Written By Hesiod