The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

When the mind is full of any one subject, that subject seems to recur with extraordinary frequency - it appears to pursue or to meet us at every turn: in every conversation that we hear in every book we open, in every newspaper we take up, the reigning idea recurs; and then we are surprised, and exclaim at these wonderful coincidences.

We are all apt to think that an opinion that differs from our own is a prejudice.

I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that bloom and please and fade and wither and are gone and we care not for them, are refreshing interests, in life, and if we cannot say never fading pleasures, we may say unreproved pleasures and never grieving losses.