To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.

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.

A sage benefits from his mistakes more than a fool benefits from his triumphs.

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.

Like Hillary Clinton, I too have traveled hundreds of thousands of miles around the globe. But unlike her, I have actually accomplished something.

Tonight the light of love is in your eyes, But will you love me tomorrow?

I know all too well that people only see what they want to see and remember only what they want to remember.

Everything one records contains a grain of hope, no matter how deeply it may come from despair.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

I'm pretty outspoken.

The breeze of God's grace is blowing continually. You have to set your sail to catch that breeze.

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*