Quotes by : Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love....

To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old....

When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little....

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some....

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged....

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old....

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests....

All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only....

Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable....

After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.