Quotes by James, Henry

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. >>

No sovereign, no court, no personal loyalty, no aristocracy, no church >>

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident >>

Quotations about Experience

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. >>

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp >>

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thu >>

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern, the condition of feeling life in general so completely that you are well on your way to knowing any particular corner of it --this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

James, Henry