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

The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

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.

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.

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

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.