One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
Washington IrvingNothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.
Washington IrvingNo man is so methodical as a complete idler, and none so scrupulous in measuring out his time as he whose time is worth nothing.
Washington IrvingHistory fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?
Washington IrvingI have often had occasion to remark the fortitude with which women sustain the most overwhelming reverses of fortunes.
Washington IrvingIt is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.
Washington Irving