“ Great minds have purpose, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them. 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 messengers of overwhelming grief. . . and unspeakable lo… Washington Irving
“ The almighty dollar that great object of universal devotion throughout our land seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages. Washington Irving
“ The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection and will in turn be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. 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… Washington Irving
“ Man passes away his name perishes from record and recollection his history is as a tale that is told and his very monument becomes a ruin. Washington Irving
“ Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. Washington Irving
“ A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she… Washington Irving
“ Some minds corrode, and grow inactive, under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginative in the loneliness of conf… Washington Irving
“ I visited various parts of my own country; and had I been merely a lover of fine scenery, I should have felt little desire to seek elsewhere its gratification, for on no country had the charms of natu… Washington Irving
“ There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity. Washington Irving
“ There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in travelling in a stagecoach that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new plac… Washington Irving
“ There is a certain relief in change even though it be from bad to worse as I have found in traveling in a stagecoach it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place. Washington Irving
“ He could not help, too, rolling his large eyes round him as he ate, and chuckling with the possibility that he might one day be lord of all this scene of almost unimaginable luxury and splendor. Then,… 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. Washington Irving
