Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. – Washington Irving
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart. – Washington Irving
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them. – 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