The dead play a very prominent part in the experience of the wanderer abroad. The houses in which they were born, the tombs in which they lie, the localities they made famous by their good or evil deeds, and the works their genius left behind them are necessarily the chief shrines of his pilgrimage.
From Thomas Bailey Aldrich
A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.
Civilization is the lamb's skin in which barbarism masquerades.
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.
The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born.
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.
There must be such a thing as a child with average ability, but you can't find a parent who will admit that it is his child.
To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.
The ocean moans over dead men's bones.
In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them.
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