Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.