Quotes by James, Henry

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by >>

Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound >>

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your bel >>

Quotations about Civilization

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins o >>

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a har >>

As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, >>

One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

James, Henry