Famous quotes containing the words james and/or wrote:
“It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)
“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)