“My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and death of kings.”
- Thomas Baily Alrich

“The horror of that moment, the king went on, "I shall never, never forget! you will,though," the queen said, if you don't make a memorandum of it.”
- Lewis Carroll

“Your absence of mind we have borne, till your presence of body came to be called in question by it.”
- Charles Lamb, Amicus Redivivus