I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

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.

Consider anything, only don’t cry!

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

Out of the water, I am nothing.

I'm definitely on the incline to a peak.

Without a strategy, an organization is like a ship without a rudder, going around in circles. It's like a tramp; it has no place to go.

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

I'm not a tough boss in that I don't raise my voice, I don't freak out, and I don't have a temper most of the time.

There is something in us that can be without us, and will be after us, though indeed it hath no history of what it was before us, and cannot tell how it entered into us.

In friendship, as in love, we are often happier through our ignorance than our knowledge.

Glad tidings to the one who leaves the world before it leaves him, prepares for his grave before he enters it, and pleases his Lord before he meets Him.