Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business. -Washington Irving Business
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. -Washington Irving Home
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them. -Washington Irving Great
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. -Washington Irving Learning
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -Washington Irving Sad
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. -Washington Irving Imagination
A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all. -Washington Irving Mom
Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant. -Washington Irving Humor
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather. -Washington Irving Good
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. -Washington Irving Smile
There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love. -Washington Irving Power
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart. -Washington Irving Friendship
Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs? No - no, your lean, hungry men who are continually worrying society, and setting the whole community by the ears. -Washington Irving Society
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart. -Washington Irving Relationship
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. -Washington Irving Sympathy
The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. -Washington Irving War
A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. -Washington Irving Age
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. -Washington Irving Intelligence
