True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.
Edith Wharton

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton

I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
Edith Wharton

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

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.
Edith Wharton

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

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.
Edith Wharton

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
Edith Wharton