I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

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

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.

In art economy is always beauty.

If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

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

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

A man who pretends to understand women is bad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

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

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.