There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition. Henry James Read Quote
The only success worth one’s powder was success in the line of one’s idiosyncrasy… what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be? Henry James Read Quote
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance… and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process. Henry James Read Quote
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. Henry James Read Quote
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. Henry James Read Quote
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors. Henry James Read Quote
Live all you can; it’s a mistake not to. It doesn’t so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven’t had that what have you had? Henry James Read Quote
