01c. 1821 ADFree-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.Washington Irving / quote ↗
02c. 1821 ADThe almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.Washington Irving / quote ↗
03c. 1821 ADLittle minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving / quote ↗
04c. 1821 ADWhen friends grow cold, and the converse of intimates languishes into vapid civility and commonplace, books only continue the unaltered countenance of happier days, and cheer us with that true friendship which never deceived hope nor deserted sorrow.Washington Irving / quote ↗
05c. 1821 ADThere is a certain meddlesome spirit, which, in the garb of learned research, goes prying about the traces of history, casting down its monuments, and marring and mutilating its fairest trophies. Care should be taken to vindicate great names from such pernicious erudition.Washington Irving / quote ↗
06c. 1821 ADThere is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song. There is a remembrance of the dead to which we turn even from the charms of the living. Oh, the grave!—the grave! It buries every error, covers every defect, extinguishes every resentment! From its peaceful bosom spring none but fond regrets and tender recollections.Washington Irving / quote ↗
07c. 1821 ADIt was the policy of the good old gentleman to make his children feel that home was the happiest place in the world; and I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.Washington Irving / quote ↗
08c. 1821 ADThere is an emanation from the heart in genuine hospitality which cannot be described, but is immediately felt and puts the stranger at once at his ease.Washington Irving / quote ↗
09c. 1821 ADHow easy it is for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him; and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles!Washington Irving / quote ↗
10c. 1821 ADA woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.Washington Irving / quote ↗
11c. 1821 ADLittle minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.Washington Irving / quote ↗
12c. 1821 ADA father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all; in good repute, in bad repute, in the face of the world's condemnation, a mother still loves on, and still hopes that her child may turn from his evil ways, and repent; still she remembers the infant smiles that once filled her bosom with rapture, the merry laugh, the joyful shout of his childhood, the opening promise of his youth; and she can never be brought to think him all unworthy.Washington Irving / quote ↗
13c. 1821 ADIt is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.Washington Irving / quote ↗
14c. 1821 ADIt lightens the stroke to draw near to Him who handles the rod.Washington Irving / quote ↗
15c. 1821 ADSociety is like a lawn, where every roughness is smoothed, every bramble eradicated, and where the eye is delighted by the smiling verdure of a velvet surface.Washington Irving / quote ↗
16c. 1821 ADThere 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 the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.Washington Irving / quote ↗
17c. 1821 ADNothing can be more touching than to behold a soft and tender female, who had been all weakness and dependence, and alive to every trivial roughness while treading the prosperous paths of life, suddenly rising in mental force to be the comforter and supporter of her husband under misfortune, and abiding with unshrinking firmness the bitterest blast of adversity.Washington Irving / quote ↗
18c. 1821 ADO woman! thou knowest the hour when the goodman of the house will return, when the heat and burden of the day are past; do not let him at such time, when he is weary with toil and jaded with discouragement, find upon his coming to his habitation that the foot which should hasten to meet him is wandering at a distance, that the soft hand which should wipe the sweat from his brow is knocking at the door of other houses.Washington Irving / quote ↗
19c. 1821 ADA woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world; it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth her sympathies on adventure, she embarks her whole soul in the traffic of affection; and, if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless, for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.Washington Irving / quote ↗
20c. 1821 ADAs the vine which has long twined its graceful foliage about the oak, and been lifted by it into sunshine, will, when the hardy plant is rifted by the thunderbolt, cling round it with its caressing tendrils, and bind up its shattered boughs; so it is beautifully ordered by Providence, that woman, who is the mere dependent and ornament of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with sudden calamity; winding herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the drooping head, and binding up the broken heart.Washington Irving / quote ↗
21c. 1821 ADI have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortune. Those disasters which break down the spirit of a man and prostrate him in the dust seem to call forth all the energies of the softer sex, and give such intrepidity and elevation to their character, that at times it approaches to sublimity.Washington Irving / quote ↗
22c. 1821 ADRising genius always shoots forth its rays from among clouds and vapours, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady and meridian lustre.Washington Irving / quote ↗
23c. 1821 ADThe natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.Washington Irving / quote ↗
24c. 1821 ADThere is a certain artificial polish, a commonplace vivacity, acquired by perpetually mingling in the beau monde, which, in the commerce of the world, supplies the place of natural suavity and good-humour; but it is purchased at the expense of all original and sterling traits of character.Washington Irving / quote ↗
