Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Character 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… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Absence 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… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Astronomy 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… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Arguing 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… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Doe 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,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Absolutes Copy Share Image
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Advice 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… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Art Copy Share Image
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Complexion 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… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Art 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,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Adequate Copy Share Image
Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Character Copy Share Image
It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Add Copy Share Image
It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Adjectives Copy Share Image
The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Cease Copy Share Image
There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were,… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Beauty Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Abandon Copy Share Image
Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Add 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… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Calling Copy Share Image
Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Accumulating wealth Copy Share Image
To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Beauty Copy Share Image
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Admirable Copy Share Image
