37 Quotes by 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 interesting ruin charm away the remembrance of a hard bed.

National enthusiasm is the nursery of genius.

Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

To impress others we must be earnest; to amuse them, it is only necessary to be kindly and fanciful.

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

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

Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous.

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.

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.