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.

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

If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

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.

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.