The Seven Ages of Man

_In meeting a baby, one should behave as much as possible like a baby one's self. We cannot, of course, diminish our size, or exchange our customary garments for baby-clothes; n...

And what is there, after all, in the life of a boy, that a man would find interesting? Or that he may not do, if such is sufficiently his desire to "make" the time for it, as he...

For in sober truth, as one reads the reputed wisdom of Solomon on this topic, fatherhood seems to be in a state of evolution and to have advanced materially since he was a fathe...

"It is a man's own fault," said Dr. Johnson, then seventy years old, but no pantaloon, "it is from want of use, if the mind grows torpid in old age." And so plausible is this ob...