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

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by …

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The fanatic has the courage of his conviction and the intolerance of his courage. He is opposed to the death penalty for murder, but he would willing…

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

- 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

The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sin…

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich

A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

- Thomas Bailey Aldrich