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.

Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.

There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.

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

Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

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.

It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.