There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

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

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

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

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

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.