Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.

[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.

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 perfectly agreed in our ideas of traveling; we hurried from place to place as fast as horses and wheels, and curses and guineas, could carry us.

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

Artificial manners vanish the moment the natural passions are touched.