Tag: Washington Irving

That happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.

Washington Irving

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble.

Washington Irving

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

Washington Irving

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

Washington Irving

They who drink beer will think beer.

Washington Irving

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Washington Irving

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

Washington Irving

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal — every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open — this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Washington Irving

There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature. They are like gigantic trees that we sometimes see on the banks of a stream; which, by their vast and deep roots, penetrating through the mere surface, and laying hold on the very foundations of the earth, preserve the soil around them from being swept away by the ever-flowing current, and hold up many a neighboring plant, and perhaps worthless weed, to perpetuity.

Washington Irving

A woman’s whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.

Washington Irving