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.

adversity is so rough a teacher!

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.

There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.

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

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

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.