Thomas B. Aldrich

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

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.

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

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

The ocean moans over dead men's bones.

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

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