Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James
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
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. – Henry James
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. – Henry James