About Eugene Field: Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays.
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.
Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh...
Ideas came with explosive immediacy, like an instant birth. Human thought is like a monstrous pendulum; it keeps swinging from one extreme to the other.
He played the King as though under momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the ace.
Here we have a baby. It is composed of a bald head and a pair of lungs.
But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.
Let my temptation be a book, which I shall purchase, hold and keep.
