Quotes by : Washington Irving

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare,....

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.

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

Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their....

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the....

For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed....

Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys,....

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity....

There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They are messengers of....

To the traveller imbued with a feeling for the historical and poetical, so inseparately interwined in....