Washington Irving Quotes & Quotations

Washington Irving Quotes

» The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

» There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.

» Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

» 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.

» 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.

» Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

» There is never jealousy where there is not strong regard.

» A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

» The great British Library --an immense collection of volumes of all ages and languages, many of which are now forgotten, and most of which are seldom read: one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or ''pure English, undefiled'' wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought.

» Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.

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