Live as you like best, and your character will take care of itself. Most things are good for you; the exceptions are very rare.
Henry JamesYou must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
Henry JamesMake (the reader) think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications. My values are positively all blanks, save so far as an excited horror, a promoted pity, a created expertness... proceed to read into them more or less fantastic figures.
Henry JamesShe is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliancy!
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