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

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!

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

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

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.

Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.