Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

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.

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

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.

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

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

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.