Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

you will always love, and you will always be loved

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance