Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.

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.

Love is photogenic, it develops in the dark.

Praying is holy path.

You’re all so obsessed with other worlds, you’re so convinced that this one is crap and everywhere else is great, but you’ve never bothered to figure out what’s going on here!

He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.

Moonshots live in that place between audacious projects and pure science fiction.

Lawsuit abuse is a major contributor to the increased costs of healthcare, goods and services to consumers.

My answer to the racial problem in America is to not deal with it at all. The founding fathers dealt with it when they made the Constitution.

In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Here is one spot where each may experience the "romance of possibility".

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world.

Of course, the greater one's need, the greater one's propensity to be mesmerized.