Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

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

No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

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.

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