Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

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.

You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

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

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.