Washington Irving People Quotations

Jealous people poison their own banquet and then eat it

Over no nation does the press hold a more absolute control than over the people of America, for the universal education of the poorest classes makes every individual a reader.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.