The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.
Henry JamesLittle by little, even with other cares, the slowly but surely working poison of the garden-mania begins to stir in my long-sluggish veins.
Henry JamesIf 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 JamesShe took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.
Henry JamesThe power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implication 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, and they occur in country and in town, and in the most differing stages of education.
Henry James