There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

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.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

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.

The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous.