“The novelist might be greater possible help to us if they painted life as it is, and human feelings in their true proportion and relation, but for the most part they have been and are altogether noxious.” — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
n artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never a… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“If he was not commonplace, it was through nothing remarkable in his mind, which was simply clear and practical, but through some combination of… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
The swelling and towering omnibuses, the huge trucks and wagons and carriages, the impetuous hansoms and the more sobered four-wheelers, the pony-carts, donkey-carts, hand-carts,… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
“Our theory of disaster, of sorrow, of affliction, borrowed from the poets and novelist, is that it is incessant; but every passage in our… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Christ and the life of Christ is at this moment inspiring the literature of the world as never before, and raising it up a… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
