Henry James

"It all comes back to the old question, the choice between living and appearing to live."

"Be as you wish to seem to be."

"Ah, the awful truth about friendship."

"We are not the masters of our fate."

"The principle of the endless head-on crash."

"Experience is never limited and it is never complete."

"Civilization is immensely complex."

"Great things have small beginnings."

"Suffering and sadness are part of the human experience."

"The idea of the perfect woman is something every man has."

"Real love has little to do with words."

"Knowledge comes through living."

"The man of culture is the man of leisure."

"To be free in any sense is to be willing to be responsible."

"The burden of the past is too heavy for any one man."

"Friendship is love without its wings."

"Everything human is pathetic."

"The essential property of a beautiful object is to be aware of its own beauty."

"Life in general leaves much to be desired."

"The future is only dark from outside."

"No good is ever done without consequences."

"The privilege of the weak is to go through life unexamined."

"The ultimate elegance is simplicity."

"The practice of an art is nothing."

"To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession."

"The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you."

"The moment is now."

"The real thing is admirable in any shape or form."

"Satisfaction in life comes from meaningful struggle."

"The worst that can happen to a person is never what they expect."