Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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

What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.

A man is known by the company his mind keeps.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I was a really bad teenager and I got my tongue pierced. I don't even remember where I did it, but it was under very surreptitious circumstances.

I realized that we were all sort of conspiring, well, not conspiring against each other, but all this cloak and dagger stuff and I was like; what is this?