I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

How strong sometimes is weakness!

To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.

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.

Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.