The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Henry James

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.
Henry James

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
Henry James

Ideas are, in truth, force.
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 work n the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.
Henry James

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Henry James

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James