All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

— Eugene Field

All human joys are swift of wing For heaven doth so allot it That when you get an easy thing You find you haven't got it.

— Eugene Field

But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

— Eugene Field

Father calls me William sister calls me Will Mother calls me Willie but the fellows call me Bill!

— Eugene Field

Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

— Eugene Field

Here we have baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.

— Eugene Field

Some statesmen go to Congress and some go to jail. It is the same thing after all.

— Eugene Field

When I demanded of my friend what viands he preferred He : "A large cold bottle and a small hot bird!"

— Eugene Field