Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.

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.

Father, I trust in you!

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.

If you don't have the confidence, it doesn't matter what you do, you're always second-guessing yourself.

Love the necessary hard work.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

They did not know what we can now guess at, contemplating the course of history: that change begins in the soul before it appears in ordinary existence.

Ultimately you understand there is order in the universe, even if there is no order in your immediate circumstances.

Racist writing is a craft failure.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.