Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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.

Be what you are and sing a song of beauty and love.

Sometimes what a person expresses in their eyes is more than all the books you could read on suffering.

Darkness grew where it would and took what it wanted. It staked its claim and never let go. And no one else could pry you free of it.

Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved … as a spiritual practice.

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

The Soviet Union is like the Cross without Christ, while American culture is like Christ without the Cross.

Love...is the immovability of truth.

You are led, when you share your loves, to an enchanted life of inner happiness, which unsharing others cannot know.

Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him.

Blessed be shock. Blessed be the part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow. At the heart of life is a fusebox.