Fav Five 1st Lines

1. What a strange, demented feeling it gives me when I realize I have spent whole days before this inkstone, with nothing better to do, jotting down at random whatever nonsensical thoughts have entered my head. ( Essays in Idleness) p. 30
2. This story will go its way simply, for I leave it to the doctors to discuss it. ( Of a Monstrous Child) p. 57
3. Hope, they say, deserts us at no period of our existence. ( On Marriage) p.229
4. I have no ear. ( A Chapter on Ears) p. 164
5. Every man hath two birth-days: two days, at least, in every year, which set him upon revolving the lapse of time, as it affects his mortal duration. ( New Year's Eve) p. 160