He might have proved a useful adjunct, if not an ornament to society.

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.

We need to apply the rules of 10, 000 hours in order to achieve the level of a skill commensurate with the status of a world-class expert

Words are the source of misunderstandings.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

There seems to be a peculiar and particular tie between men who have been drunk together.

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.

There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.

What infants need is the opportunity and time to take in and figure out the world around them.

If you work at something, you get better at it.

You're killing yourself with cynicism. Your idols got taken away from you one by one and now you have nothing to give your love to.

The key to the survival of liberty in the modern world is the embrace of multiple identities.