When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

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.

If success is a miracle then you must be the miracle worker

The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself even a little is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable.

I chose my pen name when I was ten, because I knew even then that my legal name would be more trouble than it was worth.

You can't hammer tin into iron, no matter how hard you beat it, but that doesn't mean it's useless.

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Hollywood is called Hollywood, but holly doesn't grow there. Right from the start it's based on a lie. But it's a very seductive lie, and we're still entranced by it.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

I used to race at the YMCA in Crystal Lake, Illinois, they used to have a dirt track there, and there was also a track near Rockford, Illinois, that I would go to.

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

I never search for a reason why - I have faith in the Lord's purpose.