Henry Theodore Tuckerman Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Travel, Strong, Memories

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.38

• It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Character, Self, Heaven

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.124

• Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Character, Weakness, Truthful

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1848). “Thoughts on the Poets”, p.34

• Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and quickens the affections. It reflects ourselves, warns us against prevailing social follies, adds rich specimens to our cabinets of character, dramatizes life for the unimaginative, daguerreotypes it for the unobservant, multiplies experience for the isolated or inactive, and cheers age, retirement and invalidism with an available and harmless solace.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Retirement, Cheer, Character

• It is amusing to detect character in the vocabulary of each person. The adjectives habitually used, like the inscriptions on a thermometer, indicate the temperament.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Character, Vocabulary, Adjectives

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.79

• There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Stars, Character, Night

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.13

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