Edgar Watson Howe
Edgar Watson Howe was an American novelist and newspaper and magazine editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was perhaps best known for his magazine, E.W. Howe's Monthly. Howe was well traveled and known for his sharp wit in his editorials.
In 1877 Howe established and edited the Atchison, Kansas, newspaper Globe, which he continued for twenty-five years, retiring in 1911.
Howe's most famous novel is Story of a Country Town. A 1919 edition of his Ventures in Common Sense featured a foreword by celebrated American writer (and cynic) H.L. Mencken.
Howe's daughter was the novelist Mateel Howe Farmer.
“If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used to give it expression.”
Edgar Watson Howe
“The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep”
Edgar Watson Howe
“When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.”
Edgar Watson Howe
“One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money.”
Edgar Watson Howe
“When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they've never had, and never will have”
Edgar Watson Howe
“When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.”
Edgar Watson Howe
“Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.”
Edgar Watson Howe