Edith WhartonThinkers

Architecture is reliant upon proportion — proportion is the good breeding of architecture

Architecture is reliant upon symmetry — as the answering of one part to another, it constitutes the sanity of decoration.

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

Leisure is to be nursed and protected and devoted to the cultivation of a fine intelligence and a few judiciously chosen habits.

The Literature is like a big railway station where there's a train starting every minute.

Proportion is the good breeding of architecture.

Silence is capable of being as variously shaded as speech.

Spring is when the glitter of winter shines through its pale haze.

Symmetry is the sanity of decoration.

Symmetry is, along with balance and rhythm, one of the most inveterate of human instincts.

Taste's essence is suitability.

Tradition is such that those traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.