Washington Irving Quotes:
Ocupation: Author
Life: April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859
Birthday: April 3
Death: November 28
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust?
topic: Fall, Character, Dust, Clouded, Inscriptions
