I sometimes think one of the great blessings we shall enjoy in heaven, will be to receive letters by every post and never be obliged to reply to them.
Washington IrvingThere is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that trancends all other affections of the heart
Washington IrvingThose men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.
Washington IrvingCritics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.
Washington Irving