A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.
Henry Theodore TuckermanThere is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, reasserts itself like the reminiscence of childhood, or the spell of love.
Henry Theodore TuckermanThere is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.
Henry Theodore TuckermanHad we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.
Henry Theodore TuckermanReason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.
Henry Theodore TuckermanProfessed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. They seem to be incapable of that abandon which is the requisite condition of social pleasure; and bent upon winning a tribute of admiration, or some hint which they can turn to the account of pen-craft, there is seldom in their company any of the delightful unconsciousness which harmonizes a circle.
Henry Theodore Tuckerman