One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

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.

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

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

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

Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders, – sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.

Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker – covetousness.

Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but – justice...

The term ‘lady’ has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.