Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

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.

If you say you can't, you won't!The only thing holding you back from success is yourself.

Truth is only true if it is true for all.

Always ensure to keep focus on what you desire and not what others want you to focus upon.

I try not to remember them but very often memories force themselves on my consciousness

The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people.

A fool is very dangerous when in power.

Some are born to invent, others to embellish; but the gilder attracts more attention than the architect.

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.

Do not allow the Church or State to govern your thought or dictate your judgment

I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.