Tag: Quote of the Day

In art economy is always beauty.

Henry James

We stand like a race with shrunken muscles, staring helplessly at the weights our forefathers easily lifted.

Henry James

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

Henry James

Cats and monkeys — monkeys and cats — all human life is there!

Henry James

To take what there is, and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived — to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that — this doubtless is the right way to live.

Henry James

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one’s self; but the point is not only to get out — you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Henry James

A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.

Henry James

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Henry James

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar.

Henry James