Washington Irving, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Quotes

Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration.

To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed.

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.

For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.