Washington Irving Quotes

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

Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.

I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner."

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious shrines, there is no knowing how long the inhabitants may remain in their present state of contented poverty.

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.