Henry James

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

Henry James

All intimacies are based on differences.

Henry James

Don’t underestimate the value of irony – it is extremely valuable.

Henry James

I call people rich when they’re able to meet the requirements of their imagination.

Henry James

I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

Henry James

I have a household of good books, and reading tends to take for me the place of experience-or rather to become itself experience concentrated. You will say this is a dull picture, but I cultivate dulness in a world grown too noisy.

Henry James

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

Henry James

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

Henry James

I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.

Henry James

If one is strong, one loves the more strongly.

Henry James