“Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
Everything about Florence seems to be colored with a mild violet, like diluted wine. — Henry James Copy Share Image
We care what happens to people only in proportion as we know what people are. — Henry James Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have had your life. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I have only to let myself go! So I have said all my life, yet I have never fully done it. — Henry James Copy Share Image
To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It comes over me that I had then a strange alter ego deep down somewhere inside me, as the full-blown flower is… — Henry James Copy Share Image
To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I've always expected the worst, and it's always worse than I expected. — Henry James Copy Share Image
The artist beholds in nature more than she herself Nature is conscious of. — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Live all you can: it's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do in particular, so long as you have… — 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
