Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

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.

Gracious blessings, power for great deeds.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors.

Write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.

You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell you if how and in what you are investing is right for you.

I would happily, sometimes more than happily, have vacated my role as an animal theologian, if there were others prepared to take my place.

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

You are the captain of your own ship; don't let anyone else take the wheel.

It would be excellent if he is prepared to listen to other points of view.

"Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline"... "It's easy. Incredibly easy."