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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.