Washington irving

I am always at a loss at how much to believe of my own stories.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.

Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.

The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home.

He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.