Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

It's when you don't need something that you tend to lose it.

There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.

Because I was lazy, I'd adopted the philosophy that things just happen.

To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives.

World events are the work of individuals whose motives are often frivolous, even casual.

Today, I will let things happen without worrying about the significance of each event. I will trust that this will bring about my growth faster than running around with a microscope. I will trust my lessons to reveal themselves in their own time.

There is a vulgar incredulity, which in historical matters as well as in those of religion, finds it easier to doubt than to examine.

Be relaxed, not to bother yourself, let it happen whatever that happens.

This was an easy matter with a man Oft in the wrong, and never on his guard; And even the wisest, do the best they can, Have moments, hours, and days, so unprepared, That you might 'brain them with their lady's fan;' And sometimes ladies hit exceeding hard, And fans turn into falchions in fair hands, And why and wherefore no one understands.

…death came so easily, hardly announced, without apparent cause, often greeted with smiles.

Their superstitions will allow them to believe things without much critical thought.

There are certain circumstances, which, at the time of their happening, are a kind of riddles, and as every riddle is to be followed by its answer, so those kind of circumstances will be followed by their events, and those events are always the true solution. A considerable space of time may lapse between, and unless we continue our observations from the one to the other, the harmony of them will pass away unnoticed: but the misfortune is, that partly from the pressing necessity of some instant things, and partly from the impatience of our own tempers, we are frequently in such a hurry to make out the meaning of everything as fast as it happens, that we thereby never truly understand it; and not only start new difficulties to ourselves by so doing, but, as it were, embarrass Providence in her good designs.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.