“ 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 so would I? Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“ What is more cheerful, now, in the fall of the year, than an open-wood-fire? Do you hear those little chirps and twitters coming out of that piece of apple-wood? Those are the ghosts of the robins and… Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“ Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possible thing, they always set themselves down on the most desirable spots. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“ Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that dilates the imagination. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“ After a debauch of thundershower the weather takes the pledge and signs it with a rainbow. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“ When Washington visited Portsmouth in 1789, he was not much impressed by the architecture of the little town that had stood by him so stoutly in the struggle for independence. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“ What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“ 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. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“ A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“ A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage. 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… Thomas Bailey Aldrich
