Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes
The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.
It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
To keep the heart unwrinkled to be hopeful kindly cheerful reverent -that is to triumph over old age.
After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow.
Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots.
To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age.
When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence.
A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.
Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination.