No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

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.

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

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.

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.