Washington Irving

I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow.

Washington Irving

In civilized life, where the happiness, and indeed almost the existence, of man depends so much upon the opinion of his fellow men, he is constantly acting a studied part.

Washington Irving

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man – the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse – the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Washington Irving

It’s a dog eat dog world. But only if the second dog is more stupid than the first.

Washington Irving

It’s a fair wind that blew men to ale.

Washington Irving

Let those who would keep two youthful hearts asunder, beware of music.

Washington Irving

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

Washington Irving

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

Washington Irving

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They are always wooing goddesses, and marrying mere mortals.

Washington Irving

My object is merely to give the reader a general introduction into an abode where, if so disposed, he may linger and loiter with me day by day until we gradually become familiar with all its localities.

Washington Irving