Edith Newbold Jones Wharton Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Edith Newbold Jones Wharton Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton