Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.

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.

It's nice to think people might be talking about it after they've seen it. With some comedies it's a bit 'wham bam thank you ma'am', and then you just go for a pizza.

Never be discouraged because good things get on so slowly here; and never fail daily to do that good which lies next to your hand.

There are 43 million people who are locked into predatory student loan debt, from which there is no exit.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

I don't study to know more, but to ignore less.

Love: You're not meant to wait for it. You're not meant to search for it. You're meant to generate it.

Behind a smoke screen of high-profile female appointees and soothing slogans, George W. Bush is waging war on women.

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.