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?

Quote by Henry James

Topics: Life Quotes, Mistakes Quotes

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort....

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort....

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to...

The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to...

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

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

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

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

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

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the...

The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the...

In art economy is always beauty.

In art economy is always beauty.

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point...

True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self, but the point...

Deep experience is never peaceful.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in...

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

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

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

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful...

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful...

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point...

The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point...

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second...

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second...

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of...

What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of...

Ideas are, in truth, force.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

However British you may be, I am more British still.