Henry James

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

An Englishman's never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

In art economy is always beauty.