"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives." — Henry James

A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

Source: Psychology: Briefer Course (1892)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something

Source: Bishop Blougram's Apology (1855)

Henry James Quote