I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment in despair.

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.

You are valuable

We do not kill good people, for the world is better with them in it.

Speech may be barren but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

I'm not much of an improv guy. That's a talent I don't have.

I was always writing. I just didn't know if I was any good.

Xena and Gabrielle were a couple...in the end, it was if not explicitly said, it was implicit that...yeah, they totally were.

I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state.

It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.

Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues.