English physicians kill you, the French let you die.

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.

A novel rough draft is like bread dough

Pride is an expensive vice, for it is wedded to Greed whose hunger is never sated

Practically every guy is the perfect guy the first night, so why ever bother with a second?

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.

We are the people are parents warned us against.

What is a socialist? One who has yearnings To share equal profits from unequal earnings.