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.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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

God looks after children, animals and idiots.