The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESUntil you try, you don’t know what you can’t do.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESWe care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.
HENRY JAMESShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMES…he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESDo not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else.
HENRY JAMESCriticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESTrue happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out – you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
HENRY JAMESShe had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMESIt takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
HENRY JAMESIn other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form
HENRY JAMESThere were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMES