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Washington Irving - From the Aging category:
Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Belief category:
I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Change category:
There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Character category:
An 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)
Washington Irving - From the Complaining category:
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Determination category:
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)
Washington Irving - From the Drunkenness category:
They who drink beer will think beer. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Fire category:
There is in every 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. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Friendship category:
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Genius category:
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Greatness category:
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Growth category:
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Humour category:
Honest 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)
Washington Irving - From the Jealousy category:
There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Love category:
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Magic category:
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Nature category:
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. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Sadness category:
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Spirituality category:
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without... (Washington Irving)
Washington Irving - From the Writing category:
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. (Washington Irving)
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