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.

The bore is good for promoting sleep; but though he causeth sleep in others, it is uncertain whether he ever sleeps himself; as few can keep awake in his company long enough to see. It is supposed that when he sleeps it is with his mouth open.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

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

wit is often its own worst enemy.

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

How is it that hope so powerfully excites, and fear so absolutely depresses all our faculties?