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

No man ever distinguished himself who could not bear to be laughed at.

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

there is no reasoning with imagination.

Those who have lived in a house with spoiled children must have a lively recollection of the degree of torment they can inflict upon all who are within sight or hearing.

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 may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.