“She knew that this silent, motionless portal opened into the street; if the sidelights had not been filled with green paper, she… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“The Press, my child,” Bight said, “is the watchdog of civilisation, and the watchdog happens to be – it can’t be helped… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It seemed to him that he both knew too much to imagine [the child's] simplicity and too little to disembroil his tangle.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined… — Henry James Copy Share Image
My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Well, I am rather afraid of that visit," said Clifford. "It seems to me it will be rather like going to school… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To believe in a child is to believe in the future. Through their aspirations they will save the world. With their combined… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She gazed and wondered, like a child or peasant, and paid her silent tribute to visible grandeur.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“What there was no effective record of indeed was the small strange pathos on the child's part of an innocence so saturated… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“In literature we move through a blest world in which we know nothing except by style, but in which everything is saved by it.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I shall stay here as long as I may, I don't want to think — I needn't think. I don't care for anything but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“...It often seemed to her that she thought too much about herself, you could have made her blush any day of the year, by… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I reflected acutely that the sense of such differences, such superiorities of quality, always, on the part of the majority—which could include even stupid,… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“She had never met a woman who had less of that fault which is the principal obstacle to friendship - the air of reproducing… — Henry James Copy Share Image
If you have work to do, don't wait to feel like it; set to work and you will feel like it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games — Henry James Copy Share Image