William Dean Howells
8 quotations
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.