Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, and destiny; and that which has no inherent vitality had better die… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
