I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.