The only true time which a man can properly call his own, is that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's time, not his.

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.

These are times when sympathetic joy comes naturally, but in a complex relationship the heart may not leap up so easily.

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE.

I can last two months on a good compliment.

I couldn't stand the idea of bloodshed, casualties.

You have sent me a Flanders mare.

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.

Hunchbacks danced at my wedding for luck. It's a thing you don't see nowadays.

I was born in August, no July, 1908.

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people.