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....

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.

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 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.

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.