Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

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.

Mankind is like ocean, we only see the things which comes up! If we wanna know someone better we need a deeper dive.

For every forward action, there is an equally important forward reaction.

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas.

Anytime you get a group of people, they're going to have different ideas and they're going to want to approach situations in different ways.

I determined to spend the Remainder of my Days in privacy and Retirement with my Children, from whose Society alone I cou'd expect Comfort.

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few verses of the book of Genesis.

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

Accomplish something every day of your life.