We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

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.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.

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.

Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.