Quotes by : Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible....

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

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....

They fail and they alone who have not striven.

What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little....

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.

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

The man who suspects his own tediousness has yet to be born.