Quotes from Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight.

Conway would give me no rest until I fought him. I felt it was ordained ages before our birth that we should meet on this planet and fight.

The ability to have our own way, and at the same time convince others they are having their own way, is a rare thing among men. Among women it is as common as eyebrows.

With the tears a Land hath shed Their graves should ever be green...

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.

There is no man at once so unselfish and selfish as a man in love.

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

Dialect tempered with slang is an admirable medium of communication between persons who have nothing to say and persons who would not care for anything properly said.