There rise authors now and then, who seem proof against the mutability of language, because they have rooted themselves in the unchanging principles of human nature.
Washington IrvingRead
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Christmas encourages warmth and generosity in our hearts and homes.
Washington Irving's quote highlights the essence of Christmas as a time for fostering warmth and kindness, both in our homes and within ourselves. It suggests that the spirit of hospitality and charity should be ignited during this festive season, encouraging individuals to share love and generosity with others.
Themes
ChristmasHospitalityCharityKindnessWarmth
In practice
Example use cases
A holiday card message to emphasize the importance of kindness during Christmas.
More from Washington Irving
All quotes βThere is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.
Washington IrvingRead
Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.
Washington IrvingRead
Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
Washington IrvingRead
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
Washington IrvingRead
If I can, by a lucky chance, in these uneasy days, rub out one wrinkle from the brow of care, or beguile the heavy heart of one moment of sadness; if I can, how and then, prompt a happier view of human nature, and make my reader more in good humor with his fellow-beings and himself, surely, I shall not have written in vain.
Washington IrvingRead
Similar quotes
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Read
Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings
Swami VivekanandaRead
You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.
F. Scott FitzgeraldRead
Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.
Lord ByronRead
But, drawn to her at that moment, he felt a quiet like the voice of the rain flow over him. He knew well enough that for her it was in fact no waste of effort, but somehow the final determination that it was had the effect of distilling and purifying the woman's existence.
Yasunari KawabataRead
I call not that virginity a virtue, which resideth onely in the bodies integrity; much less if it be with a purpose of perpetually keeping it: for then it is a most inhumane vice. - But I call that Virginity a virtue which is willing and desirous to yield it self upon honest and lawfull terms, when just reason requireth; and until then, is kept with a modest chastity of body and mind.
John DonneRead