Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

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

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.

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.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

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