An Orator Is The Worse Person To

Why Will Friends Publish All The Trash They Can Scrape Together Of Celebrated People?

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.

Wit Is Often Its Own Worst Enemy.

Habit Is, To Weak Minds, A Species Of Moral Predestination, From Which They Have No Power To Escape.

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.