If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. - Henry James 2 Share Now -
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. - Henry James 3 Share Now -
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid. - Henry James 5 Share Now -
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. - Henry James 6 Share Now -
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. - Henry James 7 Share Now -
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. - Henry James 8 Share Now -
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women. - Henry James 10 Share Now -
