Top 44 Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Every man has within himself a gold mine whose riches are limited only by his own industry.

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.

Nothing except time is wasted in Italy.

A man should have duties outside of himself; without them, he is a mere balloon, inflated with thin egotism and drifting nowhere.

The burdens of childhood are as hard to bear as the crosses that weigh us down later in life, while the happinesses of childhood are tame compared with those of our maturer years.

Rome is one enormous mausoleum. There, the Past lies visibly stretched upon his bier. There is no today or tomorrow in Rome; it is perpetual yesterday.

In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.

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

Conservatism and respectability have their values, certainly; but has not the unconventional its values also?

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.