Henry James Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	She felt in italics and thought in capitals.	Exaggeration
2	It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.	Tradition
3	Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its never so little scar. ... Nothing we ever do is in strict scientific literalness wiped out.	Action
4	How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?	Aging
5	The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.	Appreciation
6	The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds can change the outer aspects of their lives.	Attitude
7	Whenever two people meet there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is.	Attitude
8	Belief is desecrated when given to unproved and unquestioned statements for the solace and private pleasure of the believer . . . It is wrong always, everywhere, and for every one, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.	Belief
9	Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.	Belief
10	We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.	Cause

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