Henry James on advice

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

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

The superiority of one man’s opinion over another’s is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

Accept good advice gracefully⁠—as long as it doesn’t interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

Gene Brown

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900An Ideal Husband (1895)

Never take anything for granted.

Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Speech at Salthill (5 October 1864)