Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes
When friends are at your hearthside met, Sweet courtesy has done its most If you have made each guest forget That he himself is not the host.
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "Hospitality." The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1897, p. 119.
Under the Kanun, even blood enemies who would kill each other under any other circumstances may not attack anyone in his home or be attacked. The stricture masks many major difficulties and made the Serbian atrocities against Albanians in Kosovo even more offensive to Albanians who follow the Kanun.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich was an American writer, poet, critic, and editor. He is notable for his long editorship of The Atlantic Monthly, during which he published writers including Charles W. Chesnutt. He was also known for his semi-autobiographical book The Story of a Bad Boy, which established the "bad boy's book" subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature, and for his poetry.
