To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto notes alone give an adequate sense of pathos. They are born near the heart.
Henry Theodore TuckermanCredulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.
Henry Theodore TuckermanThere 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 shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.
Henry Theodore TuckermanThe French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman