Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

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

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

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.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.