Henry Theodore Tuckerman

"Give me the boon of Love! I ask no more for Fame; Far better one unpurchased heart Than Glorys proudest name. Why wake a fever in the blood, Or damp the spirit now, To gain a wreath whose leaves shall wave Above a withered brow?"

"For Truth makes holy Loves illusive dreams, And their best promise constantly redeems."

"There are beauties of character which, like the night-blooming cereus, are closed against the glare and turbulence of every-day life, and bloom only in shade and solitude, and beneath the quiet stars."

"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."

"There is a strength of quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess."

"I often muse upon the life of the true artist until it redeems to my mind, the more prosaic aspects of human existence."

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

"Without the definiteness of sculpture and painting, music is, for that very reason, far more suggestive. Like Miltons Eve, an outline, an impulse, is furnished, and the imagination does the rest."

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

"Our times might not inaptly be designated as the age of traveling. Its records form no insignificant branch of the literature of the day."

"There they breathe a congenial atmosphere. Often subsisting upon the merest pittance, indulging in every vagary of costume, they wander over the land and yield themselves freely to the spirit of adventure and the luxury of art."

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