Quotes from Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
This one sits shivering in Fortune's smile, taking his joy with bated, doubtful breath. This other, gnawed by hunger, all the while laughs in the teeth of Death.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich