Henry James

"She is like a revolving lighthouse; pitch darkness alternating with a dazzling brilliance!"

- Henry James

"I’m yours forever—forever and ever. Here I stand; I’m as firm as a rock. If you’ll only trust me, how little you’ll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours."

- Henry James

"I think patriotism is like charity – it begins at home."

- Henry James

"“Patriotism is like charity—it begins at home.”"

- Henry James

"Patriotism is like charity—it begins at home."

- Henry James

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."

- Henry James

"Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind."

- Henry James

"Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

- Henry James

"I think patriotism is like charity—it begins at home."

- Henry James

"It's time to start living the life we've imagined."

- Henry James

"I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did."

- Henry James

"It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined."

- Henry James

"Things are always different than what they might be. If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything."

- Henry James

"Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

- Henry James

"Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

- Henry James

"Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language."

- Henry James

"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."

- Henry James