I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.