We do not go (to the theatre) like our ancestors to escape from the pressure of reality so much as to confirm our experience of it.

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.

now i am oldolder enough to have known the worldand i am sad

Withheld potential is a "CRIME TO HUMANITY

I was too pessimistic for an optimist to live with

Etta, it could be everything, it could be nothing, what you’re making up. You shouldn’t let that bother you.

‪She hasn't lost anything she loved enough to hate the idea of God‬.

Do not rely completely on any other human being however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

She was no longer theirs. She was his. And he was hers. And this was their world.

I don't want to get rich - just live good.

There is a pleasure in not being pleased.