Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.
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.
Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
A little oil makes machinery work easy.
Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.
Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.