Books Quote by Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

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

The mind's only perfect vassal.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

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

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

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

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