37 Quotes by Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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.

If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade of formality or artifice destroys the effect of the best collection of words.

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

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 force of character.

Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters.

To a nice ear, the quality of a voice is singularly affecting. Its depth seems to be allied to feeling; at least, the contralto notes alone give an adequate sense of pathos. They are born near the heart.

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

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.

Poetry is the overflowing of the Soul.