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

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.

Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

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

Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

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.

Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.