Quote by Edith Wharton
"The mark of a civilized society is how it treats those who cannot defend themselves."
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."