Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

adversity is so rough a teacher!

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.