Henry James

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

We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are.

Henry James

Don’t mind anything any one tells you about any one else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Henry James

A family is a little world within doors; the miniature resemblance of the great world without.

Henry James

A novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life: that, to begin with, constitutes its value, which is greater or less according to the intensity of the impression

Henry James

A solitary maple on a woodside flames in single scarlet, recalls nothing so much as the daughter of a noble house dressed for a fancy ball, with the whole family gathered around to admire her before she goes.

Henry James

A writer is someone on whom nothing is lost.

Henry James

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

Henry James

All roads lead to Rome, and there were times when it might have struck us that almost every branch of study or subject of conversation skirted forbidden ground.

Henry James

Always keep a window in the attic open; not just cracked: open.

Henry James