If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.'
Henry James...he had long decided that abundant laughter should be the embellishment of the remainder of his days.
Henry JamesHer chief dread in life, at this period of her development, was that she would appear narrow minded; what she feared next afterwards was that she should be so.
Henry James