I give thee all,-I can no more, Though poor the off'ring be; My heart and lute are all the store That I can bring to thee.

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.

A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.

They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

My only contact with the outside world was an RCA Victrola, and Elvis would sing, and then I'd dream about expensive cars.

You can't break what's broken already.

I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

I remember that coming to America was scary for me because everything here is just bigger, better, shinier, you know?

Just last year i wanted to kill him, but now it is my duty to save him.

To talk about planning an economic system is to talk in old terms, and I find myself sometimes having to teach Westerners about what the market really means.