Thomas B. Aldrich

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

— Thomas B. Aldrich

Books that have become classics -- books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal -- always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay.

— Thomas B. Aldrich

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

— Thomas B. Aldrich

Gracious to all, to none subservient, Without offense he spoke the word he meant.

— Thomas B. Aldrich

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

— Thomas B. Aldrich

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

— Thomas B. Aldrich

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

— Thomas B. Aldrich