More Quotes by Washington Irving
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute. In the face of the world's condemnation, a mother's love still lives on.
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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.
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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.
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
