Thomas Aldrich Quotes

"My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings, And yet recalls the very hour 'Twas noon by yonder village tower, And on the last blue noon in May The wind came briskly up this way, Crisping the brook beside the road; Then,"

"The ocean moans over dead men's bones."

"A man is known by the company his mind keeps."

"Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades."

"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."

"What is lovely never dies, put passes into other loveliness."

"The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born."

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