There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift ones position, and be bruised in a new place. – Washington Irving
A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles. – Washington Irving
The great British Library — one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. – Washington Irving
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. – Washington Irving