Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.

How strong sometimes is weakness!

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

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

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.