“My father invested his money so securely in the banking business that he was never able to get any of it out again.”— Thomas Bailey Aldrich, The Story of a Bad Boy, 1870Share
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent—that is to triumph over old age.”— Thomas Bailey AldrichShare
“All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass.”— Thomas Bailey AldrichShare
“From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.”— Benjamin FranklinShare
“If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth.”— Abraham LincolnShare
“Listen therefore to your elder brother, and you should be obedient to your elder sister as if she were your mother.”— Instructions of ShuruppakShare
“You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.”— Rollo MayShare
“Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.”— Simone WeilShare
“In great states, children are always trying to remain children, and the parents wanting to make men and women of them.”— John RuskinShare
