There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps o…

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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 f…

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

To be a good traveler argues one no ordinary philosopher. A sweet landscape must sometimes be allowed to atone for an indifferent supper, and an inte…

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is the window out of which the winged thoughts often fly unwittingly. It is t…

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

The mind's only perfect vassal.

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation in flowers that now and then, from the influence of mood of circumstance, …

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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

- Henry Theodore Tuckerman