Quote by Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

• Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

• There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

• There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

• If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.

• Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.