3 December 2020 Washington Irving After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother’s love endures through all.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No – no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
