Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quote

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know.


The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers, A sea turn, and other papers (ed. 1903)


The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in...

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in...

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in...

The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in...