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.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.

Love occupies a vast space in a woman's thoughts, but fills a small portion in a man's life.

Confidence is the best proof of love.

Let the sexes mutually forgive each other their follies; or, what is much better, let them combine their talents for their general advantage.

According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it.