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.

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

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

Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.

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