Benevolence Quote by William Dean Howells

It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.

— William Dean Howells

“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

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

Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.

— William Dean Howells

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

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

— William Dean Howells

“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

Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?

— William Dean Howells

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

“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

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

Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

— William Dean Howells