People pay for what they do, and still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. – Edith Wharton
The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it. – Edith Wharton
Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. – Edith Wharton
There are moments when a mans imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. – Edith Wharton