Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

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

O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

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.

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.

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