adversity is so rough a teacher!
Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.
No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.
Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
The way to a manโs heart is through his stomach.
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.