More Quotes by Washington Irving
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a mirror transmitting to others the rays of a supreme and ever-shining benevolence.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
No man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
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.
