Quotes by : Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

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

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

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

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....

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

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....

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