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.

Bishop Wilkins prophesied that the time would come when gentlemen, when they were to go on a journey, would call for their wings as regularly as they call for their boots.

why will friends publish all the trash they can scrape together of celebrated people?

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

half the good intentions of my life have been frustrated by my unfortunate habit of putting things off till to-morrow.

The everlasting quotation-lover dotes on the husks of learning.

Beauties are always curious about beauties, and wits about wits.