The time-honored bread-sauce of the happy ending.
Henry James
A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.
Henry James
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Henry James
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James
In art economy is always beauty.
Henry James
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Henry James
To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
Henry James
Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.