Quotes about Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

#Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

#Thomas Bailey Aldrich

True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation.

#Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

#Thomas Bailey Aldrich

There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't...

#Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

#Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

#Thomas Bailey Aldrich

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since...

#Thomas Bailey Aldrich

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail...

#Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

#Thomas Bailey Aldrich