Acting provides the fulfillment of never being fulfilled. You’re never as good as you’d like to be. So there’s always something to hope for. Washington Irving Read Quote
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. Washington Irving Read Quote
Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. Washington Irving Read Quote
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. Washington Irving Read Quote
The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible. Washington Irving Read Quote
Those men are most apt to be obsequious and conciliating abroad, who are under the discipline of shrews at home. Washington Irving Read Quote
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal – every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open – this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Washington Irving Read Quote
One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more. Washington Irving Read Quote
