More Quotes by Washington Irving
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
A barking dog is often more useful than a sleeping lion.
Enthusiasts soon understand each other.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven
Believe me, the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow, eats oftener a sweeter morsel, however coarse, than he who procures it by the labor of his brains.
after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head
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.
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 cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.
He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.
