Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James
A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals. – 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
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