Henry James

For a man to pretend to understand women is bad manners; for him really to understand them is bad morals.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point is not only to get out—you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Live all you can; it is a mistake not to.. It doesn't matter so much what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had?

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.