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.

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

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.

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

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

A little oil makes machinery work easy.

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