The eye speaks with an eloquence and truthfulness surpassing speech. It is — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Fashion seldom interferes with nature without diminishing her grace and efficiency. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Legitimately produced, and truly inspired, fiction interprets humanity, informs the understanding, and — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
There is to the poetical sense a ravishing prophecy and winsome intimation — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
A pilgrimage is an admirable remedy for over-fastidiousness and sickly refinement. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Whatever is genuine in social relations endures, despite of time, error, absence, — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Credulity is perhaps a weakness almost inseparable from eminently truthful characters. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Do not give to thy friends the most agreeable counsels, but the most advantageous. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The French have a significant saying, that a woman who buys her complexion will sell it. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
The man who becomes a critic by trade ceases, in reality, to be one at all. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman
