The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A source page for quotes linked to Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
“We weep when we are born, Not when we die!”
“So precious life is! Even to the old, the hours are as a miser's coins!”
“O harp of life, so speedily unstrung!”
“How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf.”
“The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.”
“What is slang in one age sometimes goes into the vocabulary of the purist in the next.”
“The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.”
“What is a day to an immortal soul! A breath, no more.”
“My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings”
“A man is known by the company his mind keeps.”
“Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.”
“The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.”
“They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.”
“With the tears a Land hath shed. Their graves should ever be green.”
“Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!”
“What probing deep Has ever solved the mystery of sleep?”