Quote #13
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
More from William Dean Howells
- The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
- There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
- Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
- Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature.
- I am not sorry for having wrought in common, crude material so much; that is the right American stuff; and perhaps hereafter, when my din i…
- The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
- The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
- See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion; See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.