15th April: Henry James

Henry James was born on this date in 1843. Some Henry James quotes:

1. There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
2. Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
3. Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
4. Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
5. It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
6. I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.
7. Life is a predicament which precedes death.
8. Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
9. It's time to start living the life you've imagined.
10. The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.