The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility.

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.

Funny how you can forget that every family isn't like yours.

if you fooled a person, don't think he or she is a fool...it means, they trusted you more than themselves...

Mind what you mind. Do not just open the door of your mind to anything at all you don’t want to mind. Mind the things that get closer to your mind and mind your mind!

You must not think sir to catch old birds with chaff.

For me, poetry is a situation - a state of being, a way of facing life and facing history.

Sauces in cookery are like the first rudiments of grammar - the foundation of all languages.

I see myself as a recovering journalist.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.