How fugitive and brief is mortal life between the budding and the falling leaf. Thomas Bailey Aldrich More Quotes by Thomas Bailey Aldrich More Quotes From Thomas Bailey Aldrich There is a special Providence that watches over idiots, drunken men, and boys. Thomas Bailey Aldrich over special men watches I never witness a performance of child-acrobats, or the exhibition of any forced talent, physical or mental, on the part of children, without protesting, at least in my own mind, against the blindness and cruelty of their parents or guardians or whoever has care of them. Thomas Bailey Aldrich parents talent mind children 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. Thomas Bailey Aldrich will child you parent In every age have mighty spirits dwelt unseen with man, biding the hour that needed them. Thomas Bailey Aldrich them every man age A habit leads a man so gently in the beginning that he does not perceive he is led - with what silken threads and down what pleasant avenues it leads him! By and by, the soft silk threads become iron chains, and the pleasant avenues Avernus! Thomas Bailey Aldrich down beginning man habit To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man. Thomas Bailey Aldrich know man punishment proud To the mass of mankind - meaning also womankind - marriage may be the only possible thing; but to the individual, it may be the one thing impossible. Thomas Bailey Aldrich meaning possible marriage impossible
