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.

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.

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.

My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

The greatest compliment in the world is your adult children telling you they had a wonderful childhood.

Denial of climate change and degradation of environment for the purpose of economic prosperity is humiliation and slavery of the nature.

Ideas that are at odds with the inherited collective wisdom of antiquity are always, on their face suspect.

But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

I try to make things more interesting. I want to inject a little bit of excitement. I try to do the show for the sake of the show itself, not to make money. Fashion isn't always about making money.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

You don't always have to be doing something. The most of something that you can do sometimes is to be in the present doing nothing.

In quiet moments, I love to read.

If we'd kept a clean sheet tonight we'd have won 1-0.