There are moments of mingled sorrow and tenderness, which hallow the caresses of affection. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without... — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
And if unhappy in her love, her heart is like some fortress that has been captured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of overwhelming grief… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
It was Shakespeare's notion that on this day birds begin to couple; hence probably arose the custom of sending fancy love-billets. — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The love of a mother is never exhausted. It never changes - it never tires - it endures through all; in good… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“There is a sacredness in tears…They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition and of unspeakable love.” — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
True love will not brook reserve; it feels undervalued and outraged, when even the sorrows of those it loves are concealed from… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“He never even talked of love; but there are modes of making it more eloquent than language, and which convey it subtilely… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“To the traveller imbued with a feeling for the historical and poetical, so inseparately interwined in the annals of romantic Spain, the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Believe me, there is none fraught with such deep, such vital interest. If you talk, indeed, of the capricious inclination awakened by… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius… — Washington Irving Copy Share
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands.… — Washington Irving Copy Share
Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest… — Washington Irving Copy Share
I have never found, in anything outside of the four walls of my study, an enjoyment equal to sitting at my writing desk with… — Washington Irving Copy Share
There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor. — Washington Irving Copy Share
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most… — Washington Irving Copy Share
A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it… — Washington Irving Copy Share
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in… — Washington Irving Copy Share
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns,… — Washington Irving Copy Share
There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of… — Washington Irving Copy Share
There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games… — Washington Irving Copy Share
It is but seldom that any one overt act produces hostilities between two nations; there exists, more commonly, a previous jealousy and ill will,… — Washington Irving Copy Share
