Washington Irving Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations.

  Washington Irving

  Nature, Soul, Noble

• Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.

  Washington Irving

  Loneliness, Loss, Bird

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works”, p.251

• A woman's whole life is a history of the affections. The heart is her world: it is there her ambition strives for empire; it is there her avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends forth
  her sympathies on adventure; she embarks her whole soul on the traffic of affection; and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless — for it is a bankruptcy of the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Heart, Ambition, Adventure

  Washington Irving (1835). “The complete works of Washington Irving in one volume with a memoir of the author”, p.246

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