Henry James

"One might enumerate the items of high civilization."

"The most beautiful thing in the world is a woman's tears."

"To be grateful is to recognize the love of God in everything."

"The true principle of life is creation."

"There is no greater force in the universe than human kindness."

"The use of the past is to teach us lessons for the future."

"What is character but the determination of incident?"

"We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have."

"The power to guess the unseen from the seen is what we call experience."

"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it."

"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."

"The faculty of attention has utterly gone."

"Young people are particularly ignorant of what their parents think."

"It is simple: always see and be silent."

"The intimate essence of the real is something we feel."

"Passion ruined you, but it also saved you."

"The charm of the truly cultivated mind is that it knows both how to think and how to feel."

"I write as I walk because I have to keep moving."

"Art is the response to the demand for entertainment."

"The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use."

"If we were not foolish we should wish to be beautiful."

"Tell a man he's brave, and you help him become so."

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy it."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"What strange creatures of contradiction we are."

"In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude."

"It is art that alone is able to make the case for humanity."

"Death, in this vale of tears, is the only permanent success."

"The alternative to the church is the modern world."

"Life is a predicament which precedes manners."