Quote by Henry James
"The beautiful gain nothing by compliments; they are sufficiently aware of their charms already."
More from Henry James
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, is that it be interesting."
"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind."
"All life comes back to the question of our speech - the medium through which we communicate with each other."
"The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain sentence."