I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.

One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

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

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

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.