We love to chew the cud of a foregone vision; to collect the scattered rays of a brighter phantasm, or act over again, with firmer nerves, the sadder nocturnal tragedies.

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.

To believe ‘I’ where ‘I’ is not, is known as tirobhav (concealed or hidden belief). To believe ‘I’-ness where ‘I’ is, it is known as Aavirbhav (visible or manifest belief).

It gave an appalling idea of the value of an hour, and I thought I could never waste one again without remorse and terror.

she died of internal weeping

You leave home to seek your fortune and when you get it you go home and share it with your family.

Everyone on the bus can laugh at me, and I'll be like, 'Screw you guys: I look good!'

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.

The dove loves when it quarrels; the wolf hates when it flatters.

My whole life, my dream has been to be a quarterback.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.