Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
— Henry James
Famous Quotes
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.
— Henry James
Famous Quotes
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons.
Everything about Florence seems to be coloured with a mild violet, like diluted wine.
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination... To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
Deep experience is never peaceful.
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.