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.
From Henry James
Do not mind anything that anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.
I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea.
It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.
I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.
One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Though there are some disagreeable things in Venice there is nothing so disagreeable as the visitors.
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
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