And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESAnd we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMESGod’s creature is one. He makes man, not men. His true creature is unitary and infinite, revealing himself, indeed, in every finite form, but compromised by none.
HENRY JAMESWhat is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
HENRY JAMESInstead of leading to the high places of happiness, from which the world would seem to lie below one, so that one could look down with a sense of exaltation and advantage, and judge and choose and pity.
HENRY JAMESInnocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.
HENRY JAMESBe generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize.
HENRY JAMESShe had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.
HENRY JAMESTo establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one’s own.
HENRY JAMESThings are always different than what they might be…If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.
HENRY JAMESIt led rather downward and earthward, into realms of restriction and depression, where the sound of other lives, easier and freer, was heard as from above, and served to deepen the feeling of failure.
HENRY JAMESThe success of a work of art, to my mind, may be measured by the degree to which it produces a certain illusion; that illusion makes it appear to us for the time that we have lived another life – that we have had a miraculous enlargement of experience.
HENRY JAMESIdeas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMESIf one is strong, one loves the more strongly.
HENRY JAMESOne can’t judge till one’s forty; before that we’re too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.
HENRY JAMESThough there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
HENRY JAMESIf you have work to do, don’t wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it.
HENRY JAMES