There is no character in the comedy of human life more difficult to play well than that of an old bachelor.
Washington IrvingSometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works in quest of food for his unhealthy appetite. He was, in a manner, a literary ghoul, feeding in the charnel-house of decayed literature.
Washington IrvingWashington, in fact, had very little private life, but was eminently a public character.
Washington IrvingA woman is more considerate in affairs of love than a man; because love is more the study and business of her life.
Washington Irving