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
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
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. – Henry James