Am I solemn? I had an idea I was grinning from ear to ear." "You look as if you were taking me to a prayer-meeting or a funeral. If that's a grin your ears are very near together." "Should you like me to dance a hornpipe on the deck?" "Pray do, and I'll carry round your hat. It'll pay the expenses of our journey.
Henry James[Thomas Henry] Huxley is a very genial, comfortable being-yet with none of the noisy and windy geniality of some folks here, whom you find with their backs turned when you are responding to the remarks that they have made you.
Henry JamesOf course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
Henry JamesThe house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million, ... but they are, singly, as nothing without the posted presence of the watcher.
Henry James