A man cannot have a pure mind who refuses apple dumplings.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Their prayers impacted the outcome of the fight.

I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted?

I like songs that sound like classics. There are songs that might be cooler or have better production, but I like songs that sound like they're timeless.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

All that is obvious detracts completely from all that is not.

One who ”knows,” knows there is no need to discourse; knowing is enough

Music is love searching for a word.

I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.

Every action is an idea before it is an action, and perhaps a feeling before it is an idea, and every idea rests upon other ideas that have preceded it in time.