Quotes from Henry James, Roderick Hudson

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

He had sprung from a rigid Puritan stock, and had been brought up to think much more intently of the duties of this life than of its privileges and pleasures.

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.