Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Everything had something behind it: life was like a long corridor with rows of closed doors.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It was one of the secret opinions, such as we all have, of Peter Brench, that his main success in life would… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I don't know why we live—the gift of life comes to us from I don't know what source or for what purpose;… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Its clear friendliness seemed to ring out audibly amid this appalling hush of the harmonies of life. “I wish you might know… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as… — 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
“She sat with great intensity, giving the whole of her mind to it, and was capable of remaining for an hour almost… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Every governmental institution has been a standing testimony to the harmonic destiny of society, a standing proof that the life of man… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I know at least what I am,' he simply went on; 'the other side of the medal's clear enough. I've not been… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“I want to see what life makes of you. One thing is certain - it can't spoil you. It may pull you… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The main object of the novel is to represent life. . .The success of a work of art, to my mind, may… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“upon, having—as I at least supposed—a life of his own and tastes and habits which had long since diverted him from the… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Her chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Imprimis: I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, he had offered her a home under his own roof, which Lavinia accepted with the alacrity of a woman who had… — 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
