Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

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

Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!

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

Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

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.