Quotes from Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Slavery in New Hampshire was never legally abolished, unless Abraham Lincoln did it. The State itself has not ever pronounced any emancipation edict.

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.

The laurels of an orator who is not a master of literary art wither quickly.

What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

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.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

O Liberty...! is it well To leave the gates unguarded?