lovely quotation...

[ftangredi]

... and one of the few intelligible things Henry James ever said.

"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."

Comments

[mesnalty]

It's odd that he has such a knack for pithy quotations, seeing how wordy most of his books are.

[ftangredi]

I took a graduate seminar in Henry James when I was an undergrad at Cornell. It was the kind of thing where I realized how much I liked the books six months after reading them.

[dianagram]

kind of ...

[baxwest]

I always wondered where that came from.
Great quote.