sometimes the very faults of parents produce a tendency to opposite virtues in their children.

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die.

If young women were not deceived into a belief that affectation pleases, they would scarcely trouble themselves to practise it so much.

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

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

Our pleasures in literature do not, I think, decline with age; last 1st of January was my eighty-second birthday, and I think that I had as much enjoyment from books as I ever had in my life.

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