Quote: The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. [William Dean Howells]
Quote: He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. [William Dean Howells]
Quote: Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. [William Dean Howells]
Quote: What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. [William Dean Howells]
Quote: Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. [William Dean Howells]
Quote: An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. [William Dean Howells]
Quote: It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. [William Dean Howells]