Quote by Edith Wharton
"The writer's aim is not to record what has been, but to show what might be."
More from Edith Wharton
"There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self."
"If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
"The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it."
"I am not sure that I have ever really known a happy man."