The Sketch Book Quotes

“There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”
― Washington Irving, The Sketch Book

“He is indeed the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.”
― Washington Irving, Irving's Sketch Book

“The great charm, however, of English scenery is the moral feeling which seems to pervade it. It is associated in the mind with ideas of order, of quiet, of sober well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom. Everything seems to be the growth of ages of regular and peaceful existence.”
― Washington Irving, The Sketch Book