More Quotes by Washington Irving
There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
I've had it with you and your emotional constipation!
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.
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.
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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.
It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man.
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
