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.

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

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

Those who are animated by hope can perform what would seem impossibilities to those who are under the depressing influence of fear.

I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.