The only success worth ones powder was success in the line of ones idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? – Henry James
In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives. – Henry James
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left. – Henry James
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