I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.
Henry JamesWe must grant the artist his subject, his idea, his donnยดe: our criticism is applied only to what he makes of it.
Henry JamesIt is indeed immensely picturesque. I can fancy sitting all a summer's day watching its shadows shorten and lengthen again, and drawing a delicious contrast between the world's duration and the feeble span of individual experience. There is something in Stonehenge almost reassuring; and if you are disposed to feel that life is rather a superficial matter, and that we soon get to the bottom of things, the immemorial gray pillars may serve to remind you of the enormous background of time.
Henry James