Washington Irving Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.	Adversity
2	A woman's life is a history of the affections.	Affection
3	An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.	Amiable
4	There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.	Change
5	Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure they think he is growing old.	Compliment
6	There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others however humble.	Dignity
7	A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.	Family
8	His very faults smack of the raciness of his good qualities.	Fault
9	Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity.	Indifference
10	The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by strategem.	Injury

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