Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young,…

Free-livers on a small scale, who are prodigal within the compass of a guinea.

The almighty dollar, that great object of universal devotion throughout our land, seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages; and unless some of its missionaries penetrate there, and erect banking houses and other pious …

I am always at a loss to know how much to believe of my own stories.

There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in travelling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place.

I endeavor to take things as they come with cheerfulness, and when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.