Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?

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.

Art should be pretentious. The place to be sincere is in one's relationships.

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

Don't worry that other people don't know you; worry that you don't know other people.

Sometimes you don't choose the material; the material chooses you.

[A photograph] is a part of the evidence. I'm not saying it's the truth - it's part of the evidence.

The nature of the internet is that you don't know who is behind the screen.

I want to be inspired by the characters that I play and excited by the projects that I do.

A man should think less of what he eats and more with whom he eats because no food is so satisfying as good company.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.