Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESJudge everyone and everything for yourself.
HENRY JAMESOne doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMESTo criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession.
HENRY JAMESLife is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMESThe right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
HENRY JAMESI think I don’t regret a single “excess” of my responsive youth I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn’t embrace.
HENRY JAMESSummer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
HENRY JAMESAmericans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.
HENRY JAMESIt’s never permitted to be surprised at the aberrations of born fools.
HENRY JAMESYou were ground in the very mill of the conventional.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESDon’t try so much to form your character – it’s like trying to pull open a tight, tender young rose.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMESTo believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMESArt is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.
HENRY JAMESI think patriotism is like charity — it begins at home.
HENRY JAMES