Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

“No it's not. It's a big hot!” At 2 years old. After being warned that the car seat was a little hot.

“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.''

'Daddy, how many whoppers are there in those tall trees?' After waking up in the car while driving through Calaveras Big Trees and hearing daddy say, 'Wow, that's a whopper of a tree.'