Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
adversity is so rough a teacher!
Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.
A little oil makes machinery work easy.
When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.