Edith Wharton Heart Quotations

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

The difference is that these young people take it for granted that they're going to get whatever they want, and that we almost always took it for granted that we shouldn't. Only, I wonder—the thing one's so certain of in advance: can it ever make one's heart beat as wildly?

Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.