Quotes from Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.

Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Milton's Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

Society is the offspring of leisure; and to acquire this forms the only rational motive for accumulating wealth, notwithstanding the cant that prevails on the subject of labor.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess.

There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

Far better one unpurchased heart than glory's proudest name.

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

A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

The art of walking is at once suggestive of the dignity of man. Progressive motion alone implies power, but in almost every other instance it seems a power gained at the expense of self-possession.

A work of art is said to be perfect in proportion as it does not remind the spectator of the process by which it was created.

Literature is so common a luxury that the age has grown fastidious.