We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.

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.

It is more substantial to represent a purpose, rather than just a title.

If you don’t know how to deal with emotion, other people’s feelings can hit you like a drug.

The totality of beliefs and sentiments common to the average members of a society forms a determinate system with a life of its own. It can be termed the collective or creative consciousness.

She went kind of pink and laughed, the kind of laugh you do when you know yo shouldn't be laughing. The kind of laugh that spoke of a conspiracy.

I want every image to be the beginning of an unseen image.

And I said to myself, here's the problem with the world: The Italians are too Italian, and nobody else is Italian enough.

I kind of lost interest in the classical dance. I was very much interested in the modern choreography.

He whom Love touches not walks in darkness.

If I'm out in the country or something, I'm still spooked by snakes.

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.