If you have children, however, that are teething, the nursery should be a good way up stairs; at sea, it ought to be in the mizzen-top.

Indeed, teething children play the very deuce with a husband's temper.

I have known three promising young husbands completely spoil on their wives' hands, by reason of a teething child, whose worrisomeness happened to be aggravated at the time by the summer-complaint.

With a breaking heart, and my handkerchief to my eyes, I followed those three hapless young husbands, one after the other, to their premature graves.
Gossiping scenes breed gossips.

Who so chatty as hotel-clerks, market women, auctioneers, bar-keepers, apothecaries, newspaper-reporters, monthly-nurses, and all those who live in bustling crowds, or are present at scenes of chatty interest.
Solitude breeds taciturnity; _that_ every body knows; who so taciturn as authors, taken as a race?
A forced, interior quietude, in the midst of great out-ward commotion, breeds moody people.