01c. 1821 ADI am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.Washington Irving / quote ↗
02c. 1821 ADYoung lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.Washington Irving / quote ↗
03c. 1821 ADHonest 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.Washington Irving / quote ↗
04c. 1821 ADThe natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.Washington Irving / quote ↗
05c. 1821 ADChristmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.Washington Irving / quote ↗
06c. 1821 ADAn inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.Washington Irving / quote ↗
07c. 1821 ADA tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.Washington Irving / quote ↗
08c. 1821 ADAfter all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.Washington Irving / quote ↗
09c. 1821 ADOne of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.Washington Irving / quote ↗
10c. 1821 ADLittle minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.Washington Irving / quote ↗
12c. 1821 ADHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.Washington Irving / quote ↗
13c. 1821 ADSweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.Washington Irving / quote ↗
14c. 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.Washington Irving / quote ↗
15c. 1821 ADA kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.Washington Irving / quote ↗
16c. 1821 ADThose men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.Washington Irving / quote ↗
17c. 1821 ADWho ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears.Washington Irving / quote ↗
